Word: panzers
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...prettiest little armored brigades you ever saw," George Wadsworth says, speaking of the Turkish army we've helped build. "They're really more like the German Panzer division. They're wonderful." He belligerently asserts it is "the best army in all of Europe" and defies any one to argue with...
...best ones were derived from Western models. But in tactical air, the defense-conscious Russians took a back seat to no one. One of the best ground attack planes of World War II, the armor-plated Stormovik, came off the drawing board of another Russian, Sergei Iliushin. German Panzer divisions called it "the black death." In one ten-day period, the Stormoviks knocked out over 400 Nazi tanks. The Russians also learned to build planes in a hurry. By 1945, Russia's factories were turning them out at the rate of 40,000 a year, and her first-line...
...Hitler's personality dominated the conferences-and the vindictive "meanness" of the man's mind. One example: his treatment of hard-pressed Field Marshal von Kluge, whom he called back from the Eastern Front on July 26, 1943, to inform him that some of his Panzer units would have to be sent to other fronts...
Kluge: But I can't do anything without Panzer divisions...
...Ready Squads." The Russians, who well remember the havoc wrought by Hitler's Panzer divisions, have worked mightily at tank production, now have more tanks in service than the rest of the world's armies combined. In Germany alone, the Reds have at least 4,400 tanks, and in general they are better than any now in regular use by U.S. armored divisions. Most of the tanks in East Germany are 33-ton T-34s null gun), the types used in the Communist attack in Korea...