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D.N.B. also conceded that Britain and Russia were developing tanks "along the right lines," but hastened to add lyrical praise for the "impregnable" German "Tiger" tanks (which Allied experts consider clumsy). Of the new American tank destroyers, with their 105-mm. and three-inch high-velocity guns, D.N.B. said not a word...
High among the puffy white clouds over Kiel both the pilot and co-pilot of the B-17 Worry Wart were knocked out. Below-zero cold froze the pilot's hands and feet. The co-pilot was dead, a 20-mm. shell through his breast. Ugly flak blossoms unfolded on all sides. In & out among the clouds darted droves of enemy fighters. Worry Wart's chances of getting back to England were next to zero...
...three months crews of ten Fortresses (100 men) wore the armor, plus regulation steel helmets, on regular missions over Europe. Grow's figures showed that at least nine owed their lives to it; many more were saved from serious wounds. One man survived a 20-mm. shel' which exploded two feet from his head...
...necessitating a return match this week). But the loudest yells were for a heavyweight, Private Clarence Bressett of the notoriously vociferous cannon company, who, though ten pounds lighter than his opponent, knocked him clear across the ring with a right uppercut that sounded like the explosion of a 60-mm. mortar shell...
...ordnance planners long ago foresaw that the armed forces might shoot their way right through the available supply of copper, the key metal in brass cartridge cases. They were right. By this week some 70 companies were making cartridge cases of steel in all sizes, .45-cal. to 105-mm...