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...reached intact they reinforced to bear the juggernauts' weight. Between planes overhead and the clanking mastodons on the ground, radio contact was kept up constantly. Timing was worked out to a matter of seconds. Fire-power of the break-through tanks was several heavy machine guns, plus light cannon. Their armor could resist any fire short of 75 mm. at all ordinary ranges-a fact which nullified the French defense plan of 25 mm. anti-tank guns arranged in depth. Once through, the break-through tanks sought only to smash up all anti-tank weapons in sight, then...
Behind the break-through tanks came assault tanks of six to ten tons, carrying light cannon and machine guns firing through ports guarded by revolving steel discs synchronized to the guns' tempo, each manned by one officer or non-com and one private. Of these, five made a squadron, three squadrons a company (plus the unit leader's car, radio car and reserve echelon), three companies a battalion, three battalions to a 135-tank regiment, plus reserves. Two regiments of breakthrough and two of assault tanks made a 400-tank armored division...
...invader until mass help arrived. From Antwerp through Louvain to Namur ran another line of forts, completed in the last seven months. And across the Belgian hills for 100 miles ran a flexible wall of heavy steel fence set on rollers, calculated to enmesh all tank advances until defensive cannon could demolish them. In 1914, King Albert had to withdraw his forces from Liege after twelve days, first to Brussels, which fell in another four days; then to Antwerp, which held out 67 days longer, after the Germans turned on it to end Belgian sorties which were hampering their southward...
...weeks ago it became known that the one-year rule has been chucked out the window. Douglas' new bomber, Bell's cannon-carrying pursuit ship Airacobra, Curtiss' P-40D pursuit, the new two-engined Lockheed and Grumman pursuits were released for sale to the Allies. Along with them went the Army Air Corps' most prized engine design: the liquid-cooled, 12-cylinder Allison...