Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every general has his pet dicta. One of Almond's favorites is "no tanks to the rear," a logical sequence of his conviction that a soldier must use every weapon he has to the uttermost to kill the foe and save his own skin. "The place of the tank," he explains, "is at the front destroying the enemy. If it goes back, even though for gasoline, we lose two things: firepower and the morale of the foot soldier. The foot soldier moving up can well ask himself, 'What the hell?' if a tank passes him going...
...week, after whistling through a first trial flight clocked at a speed of 646 miles per hour. The swept-wing I.Ae. 33 Púlqui II, powered by a Rolls-Royce turbojet engine, is the second jet plane to be designed and built in Argentina. The designer: Professor Kurt Tank, former technical director of Germany's Focke-Wulf concern and designer of the formidable...
...Nazi Tank is only one of a number of German experts who escaped to Argentina after World War II. Now working as adviser on V-weapons for the Argentine Air Ministry is Werner Baumbach, onetime Luftwaffe bomber pilot who claims to have sunk 300,000 tons of British shipping. Another Air Ministry adviser is Adolf Galland, onetime Inspector General of the Luftwaffe Fighter Command. Working with Designer Tank is Hans Ulrich Rudel, a one-legged whirlwind credited with sinking the Russian battleship Marat and two cruisers, as well as knocking out a record of 532 tanks...
Finally, his rear gas tank hit and his controls damaged, Jones gave up. On the way back, Corporal Whittall had to lie on the floor of the cockpit, holding one of the controls in place with a knife. Jones knew he could not make it back to the Rochester, brought his craft down on the Han River in territory then still held by the Reds. Jones and Whittall took to their rubber life raft and reached an island in the river. As soon as the moon came up, they were rescued-by a helicopter...
...center of the street, six Pershing tanks wheeled into position to advance. Directly in front of the lead tank lay the body of a Red soldier who had been caught in the burst of a white phosphorus shell. The corpse was still burning as the tank's right tread passed over it, extinguishing the flame and grinding the body into a grisly compost of flesh and cinders...