Word: armorers
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...often visits Iliushin's offices, gives unexcited pep talks to the staff. When Hitler went on his rampage, Iliushin began to toy with the idea of a flying tank-buster. The seed of the idea was the memory of a frying pan with which many a Russian flyer armor-plated his plane seat in World War I. Out of the frying pan came the fiery Stormovik, which has destroyed so many Nazi tanks that the Germans renamed it der schwarze Tod (the Black Death). Heavily armored, bristling with cannon, the Stormovik is deadliest at a perilous...
...Army, the dropping barometer screamed for haste. By a prodigious and bloody effort, the Russians took Kharkov. But this skeleton of a once great city was no longer as important as it had been a month earlier. The Red Army sought space, not cities. Space was armor to protect the recaptured strongholds from counterattacks. Space gained was also momentum maintained-a crucial factor in a great offensive...
...next summer when light plane manufacturers lent a dozen puddle jumpers for the 1941 maneuvers. A new colonel named Dwight Eisenhower was impressed. So was Lieut. Colonel Mark Clark. Flying observation posts soon were standard in the field artillery, ten to each infantry division, eight to each of armor...
...belly of the ship. The plane now creeping into R.A.F.-Eighth Air Force communiques is the fourth model. It looks something like a huge,* streamlined milk bottle. It is half as heavy as a loaded 21-passenger transport, is armed with eight .50-calibre machine guns, is heavily armor-plated, is powered with a 2,000-h.p. Ford-built Pratt & Whitney engine...
This week 106,000 men were learning how tough the D.T.C. at its toughest can be. Two infantry divisions, one of armor, an air-support command of 3,000 men and 23,000 service troops were winding up the most grueling maneuvers ever held in the U.S. Said an exhausted tankman: "We were in Louisiana before we were here. I thought that was rugged, but it was a picnic...