Word: panzer
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...There the enemy had been given a foretaste: the hillside forts above Metz have been given preliminary dive bombings; 300 U.S. planes had given heavy tactical support. In the Nancy sector Patton's Third Army in four days had added more than 130 tanks (the equipment of a Panzer division) to its bag of 200 the week before...
...heard the Allied guns pounding 25 miles away, the editor of the Kölnische (Cologne) Zeitung wrote an editorial: "The steam roller of the Allied air force, supported by tank divisions, has driven back our Wehrmacht. If only we had three additional air fleets and ten additional Panzer divisions...
...Twenty German infantry divisions and five armored divisions destroyed; twelve infantry and six Panzer divisions "badly cut up"; four more divisions hopelessly isolated in Brittany and the Channel Islands. The 47 dead and battered divisions included some of the Wehrmacht's prized paratroop and tank units...
Meanwhile the Red armies had been stalled on the Warsaw approaches by fierce assaults of German armor. The Polish rebels had vainly tried to prevent four Panzer divisions from getting through to the east for this fight. The Russians were forced to evacuate Ossow, a town seven miles from the Warsaw suburb of Praga-the first time they had lost a town since their summer offensive started. At week's end the Nazis were still able to mount 20 attacks...
...critical spot (see above). There the Germans had thrown four armored divisions into desperate counterattack. The object: to pierce the narrow waist of the U.S. corridor from Normandy, thus split the Allied front. One U.S. division, new to combat when it landed in France, took the brunt of the Panzer blow, recoiled, then stood and slugged...