Word: panzers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Although the Metropolitan District Commission, which polices the Drive, is not acutely worried over the impending mayhem, local sadists are planning to be on hand to see the carnage which should result from the impact of two contrarily-moving Panzer divisions...
...each other. At Fort Benning, Ga. and Fort Knox, Ky. in 1936, Germany's Major General (then Colonel) Adolf von Schell was an honored guest of the U.S. Army. He saw its small, experimental mechanized units at work, took back many a valuable lesson for Hitler's Panzer divisions. Last month Chief of Staff George C. Marshall told a Congressional subcommittee: "In the last two weeks we have gotten more exact data than we have previously had as to the employment of German armored and motorized forces. . . ." When this information had been digested, said the General...
...only part of a modern army. Last week the General Staff recognized this fact, ordered the Infantry and the Armored Force hereafter to cooperate in joint studies of combat principles, joint application of their theories in the field. Reason: the Army knew that Germany's famed, headlined Panzer divisions had had motorized infantry (transported in trucks but fighting afoot) to back up the tanks, hold ground after mechanized units had broken through enemy lines. Far-sighted officers then began to hope that the General Staff would carry this principle a step further, make joint study and practice a three...
...Graziani, nearly the last of Italy's famed and tried old hands. His place was taken by General Italo Gariboldi, 62, one of Italy's old whisker-bearing generals. But the real Axis commander in Libya was now no Italian. It was Lieut. General Erwin Rommel, a Panzer expert whose appointment to Libya must have maddened the Italians: he distinguished himself against them in World War I. General Rommel apparently used one mechanized division (mostly German) in his giant raid, and by outflanking tactics took first el-Aghéila, the farthest point of British advance, then...
Enjoying the heady half-mile-high air were young sprigs on leave from Panzer and other divisions, industrialist families glad to get out of their much-bombed home towns, few Nazi bigwigs. Official Germany had too much on its mind to go skiing...