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BreakThrough. When the way was prepared, 20-ton break-through tanks, each carrying eight to 16 men, charged in, regardless of losses two to a squadron, two squadrons to a battery, three batteries to a section, three sections to a 36 tank regiment, plus a reserve echelon. Where deep rivers or canals interposed, the bombing planes covered the break-through tanks while, according to other stories, water tight 30-ton amphibians wallowed in, to let bridges be built across their steel backs for the rest. Other tanks apparently carried pontoons for crossing water. Across tank asparagus, pits, ravines, special bridging...
...professional fighters and from the same military academies-at Wahlstatt and Lichterfelde (oldtime Prussian West Point)-that turned out Germany's Hindenburg and Ludendorff. From the age of twelve, in school and at home in Breslau, he was shaped strictly for membership in his father's regiment, the crack Seventh Grenadiers of Liegnitz, Silesia, whose honorary chiefs were the Kaiser and the Tsar. Schoolmates recall him as a witty wisecracker, gay, with a talent for dramatics. But he stuck to soldiering faithfully, gained his lieutenancy in time for World War I. By bravery at Longwy and the Meuse...
...services for the Finnish Relief Fund. Among them were America's six top-notch professional tennists: Donald Budge, Ellsworth Vines, Fred Perry, Bruce Barnes, Berkeley Bell and greying, 47-year-old Bill Tilden, back in the U. S. after nearly three years abroad. In Manhattan's 71st Regiment Armory they did their bit-in a four-hour, five-match show with...
...lieutenant of infantry, hospitalized for rheumatism of the joints. He had been born in Bavaria, ninth son of a colonial official whose jobs included the first Governorship of German South West Africa, and had been educated in the cadet college of Karlsruhe. From the hospital, instead of rejoining his regiment, Göring went to the Stenay airdrome near Darmstadt, cheerfully admitted he had deserted and asked to join. the Air Force. He got his pilot's license in the autumn...
...irregular cavalry, but upon serving his two years, eight months stretch in a regular cavalry, in Nijegorodsni dragoons, he re-enlisted. I don't remember for how many times. Eventually he served in Persia in 1914-17 as a sergeant-major of esquadron 4, same regiment, quartered in Hamadan, Persia. . . . When Budenny eventually was heard from, he was a head of a regular cavalry outfit, nominally of course: you admit that Reds eventually had to send him to the school at the age of 46 years, and we back in Russia knew very well that the real boss...