Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Landing Ship-Tank) has bow doors and beaching ramp, elevators to lift tanks or other cargo from the hold to the main level. Length: 328 feet (World War II models) or 382 feet (postwar models...
...Wetumka, Okla. farmer named J. M. Carter excitedly handed a copy of a local newspaper to his wife Martha Ellen. Their son, 19-year-old Pfc. James Madison Carter, said a news dispatch from Korea, had been decorated with the Silver Star, for helping to destroy an enemy tank. He had also been wounded in the action. Proud, worried, but in a way relieved in knowing that he would be out of danger in a hospital, they wrote asking him for details. This month their letters began coming back stamped: "Deceased-verified...
...ramp went down. Within seconds the first tank was chugging its way across the beach. Behind it, marines worked desperately, unloading food and ammunition...
...left the prisoners, and went inland along a new road which a tank had just smashed out of a rubble-heaped path. I caught up with the tank just in time to see its 105 fire two rounds point-blank into a deep cave. A muffled series of explosions rumbled inside the cave, which had been used to store ammunition...
When the hard-fighting 27th (Wolf hound) Infantry Regiment stopped a Communist tank drive on Taegu a month ago, the New York Herald Tribune's pert, fearless Correspondent Marguerite Higgins cabled an eyewitness story of the four-hour battle. Last week, in a letter to the Trib, the regiment's hard-bitten Colo nel J. H. ("Mike") Michaelis complained that she had left out something important. He supplied...