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...armor courageously tried to stop the German onrush along the road to Sbeïtla. Lieut. Colonel Louis V. Hightower put his General Sherman tank between the advancing Germans and a fleeing motorized column. Hightower's tank held off nine Mark IVs and a Mark VI, destroyed four of them and damaged the Mark VI before a shell exploded in one of his gas tanks. Hightower shouted to his crew: "Git!" They got, jumping out "like peas from a hot pod." The other, thin-skinned vehicles had been saved...
...German column from Maknassy hooked around them like a giant finger, plucked them off. As day ended and night closed down, U.S. tanks threw themselves against Panzer units that outnumbered them 2-to-1. Tank fought tank, firing at the livid gun flashes. On the second day U.S. armor counterattacked...
...troops tried to hold Kasserine Pass, but the cocky and persistent Germans kept jabbing at them. Despite a storm of U.S. artillery fire, they seized the pass, swept on through toward Thala. With Tébessa and the whole right flank of the British First Army in danger, Allied armor met Rommel's divisions this week in a climactic...
...still secret. > Paper parachutes for loads up to 50 lb. are replacing expensive chutes of scarce silk and nylon. The Civil Air Patrol drops food, serum and other emergency supplies with tough, crepe-paper chutes made by Dennison Manufacturing Co. > Recent entrant in the unending race between projectiles and armor is a bullet to shoot holes in so-called bulletproof gas tanks. These tanks have rubber linings which close up holes made by ordinary bullets. The new projectile has a loose tubular jacket which sticks in the rubber lining and keeps the hole open. > Agar-agar, gelatinous medium essential...
Bombs for Berlin. The importance of 100-octane gas to the United Nations is that it provides so much extra power that it permits airplane protective armor and such safety features as self-sealing gas tanks without sacrifice of speed. Said Standard's Gallagher: "When a long-range offensive can be mounted against Berlin or Tokyo, 1,000 planes will be able to carry nearly 5,000,000 more pounds of bombs per trip because of 100-octane, than if 87-octane (yesterday's superfuel) were used." U.S. bombers with 100-octane have the power to lift with...