Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that is going on is the result of a vast conspiracy by a handful of international gangsters calling themselves Axis powers....We now have, in various parts of the world, separate sectors of one great battlefield.... We are proud and happy to count ourselves the allies of your great country...
...battlefield were around 400 light (13½-ton) U.S. tanks, each armed with a 37-mm. cannon and machine guns, some 50 U.S. mediums-30-tonners armed with a 75, a 37 and machine guns. Those were the equals, on paper, of the Germans' heavy (32-ton) Mark...
...Caucasus, Iran, Iraq and Syria may well prove to be the great battlefield of 1942. It is difficult to predict whether any particular phase of the war will be decisive, but obviously when and if the Germans strike out for the oil in the Caucasus and the oil in Iran and seek to attack our Middle Eastern position, this region will become the main theater...
...Russia the Germans were putting on a desperate drive to get themselves set for the battle of 1942. They could not drive south to the battlefield of 1942 while substantial Russian forces remained at their rear in the north; and so they fought in violent haste, to choke off Moscow (see p. 21) and strengthen their position at the approach of the Caucasus, around Rostov...
Without the fast-moving infantry support they should have had (which will be supplied as the Army is motorized), they were comparatively ineffective. Tankers still had no reason to doubt that the Panzer division is the most potent force on the battlefield. But they had learned that it is not all-powerful, needs the support of other arms...