Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desperate effort to throttle Red supply lines and impede their tank and troop movements, Major General Emmett O'Donnell's big B-29s joined Allied fighters and tactical bombers in an "interdiction campaign"-striking enemy communication lines in South Korea. It was a measure of the critical stage of the war in Korea last week, for B-29s were never designed to do the work of tactical aircraft...
Russian soldiers last week were on the march in Eastern Germany. Over the same military training fields that had once rumbled under the boots and tank treads of Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht, the Russian columns toiled and sweated in the summer sun. Officially, the Russians were just on maneuvers. But Western Europe was struck with an obvious and ominous comparison: the European country most vulnerable to the kind of Communist aggression that had struck partitioned Korea was partitioned Germany. Was the Russian rumble as ominous as it sounded? Last week, after a close investigation, TIME'S Berlin Bureau...
This gun fires on a relatively flat trajectory with extraordinary accuracy. The Long Tom (maximum range: 14½ miles) can reach into enemy assembly areas, hit tank and troop concentrations and supply depots before the attack begins. In World War II the Long Tom was widely admired in all theaters as a tough, reliable weapon...
...guns like this and the Long Tom are classed as heavy artillery. They are good for destroying enemy batteries, pillboxes and other fortifications. If a shell from either weapon should hit a tank, the tank is done...
...auto industry, this did not mean conversion. Cadillac would not use any of its present facilities to make the tanks, but would use the Fisher bomber plant in Cleveland, which has not been in production since World War II. Moreover, it would take Cadillac nine months, the Army warned, to make its first tank. For the time being, the Army would have to rely on its own $70 million Detroit tank arsenal. The only plant currently producing tanks, it is turning out only a meager twelve a day, half of them the heavy, 48-ton General Patton...