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...Spanish embargo on exports of wolfram, the toughening agent for armor-piercing steel, which Spain has been liberally supplying to Germany...
Last week the gadget came off the secret list. It is the Piat (Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank) and it fires a 2.75-lb. bomb which explodes on impact with a violence sufficient to penetrate four inches of tempered armor plate. But the Piat does not employ the bazooka's rocket principle. Its projectile, like a mortar shell, is propelled by the explosion of a cartridge in the base. Rear half of the tube houses a powerful steel spring which takes up the recoil, re-cocks itself and operates the firing pin for the next shot. In combat...
...million Reichsmark credit agreement with the Nazis, ostensibly liquidating his debt to Hitler for services rendered during the Spanish Civil War, actually enabling Germany to secure fresh supplies of strategic materials. Probable first German purchase: 800 tons of precious wolfram now stored on the French border and needed for armor-piercing steel. Probable second purchase: more wolfram, stored in Spain...
...Armored Mice. Lewis started writing when he was very young. "My first stories," he says, "were nearly all about mice, but mice in armor killing gigantic cats. That is, I wrote the books I should have liked to read if only I could have got them...
...came from training camps, turning out millions of men & women soldiers. It also came from the new or transplanted war factories. Russian engineers performed miracles in expanding production, modernizing old weapons, creating new ones. Russia's Katusha antedated the U.S. bazooka, the German rocket gun. New, high-velocity, armor-piercing shells enabled the Red Army to retain anti-tank guns once thought too light to tackle the German Tiger...