Word: tanked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Senator Smith has a point well taken. It is somewhat disturbing to one stationed only two tank hours from the East German border to learn that the U.S. would be hesitant to use its atomic weapons...
...limited war. Around the world, Army units are getting a badly needed transfusion of modern equipment: the fully automatic M-14 rifle (which finally is replacing the famed M-1 of World War II), the lightweight M-60 machine gun, a lighter and livelier Jeep, the M-60 tank, and enough M-113 armored personnel carriers to give a lift to every footslogging infantryman in the Seventh Army...
...twelve years to develop the M-14 rifle. Item: the Army needed nine years to develop the M-60 machine gun, which only now is beginning to replace World War II models. Item: the Army, after seven years of work, is just now beginning to get the M-60 tank, the answer to the Russians' T-54, which appeared in 1952. But Army tank experts fully expect that the Russians will soon produce a new generation of tanks that can outclass...
Born to Battle. With the 1st Cavalry, Abrams earned the reputation of being the worst polo player in the U.S. Army, and mastered the day's standard tactics of how to attack an enemy tank: circle it at 15 yds. with five troopers like Indians closing in on a wagon train. Not until Hitler's Panzer divisions blitzkrieged France out of World War II in 1940 did the Army really begin its own tank program. Assigned to the brand-new 4th Armored Division, Abrams rose to command the 37th Battalion with the rank of major, drilled his tankers...
...moment it wheeled into action in Normandy in July 1944. From the start, Abrams showed the feel and flair of the born combat man. As General George Patton's Third Army led the conquering sweep across Europe, the 4th Armored Division led the Third Army, the 37th Tank Battalion led the 4th Armored-and Abe Abrams led the 37th. Leaning out of his Sherman tank, he chomped on a huge cigar and rallied his tankers with his war cry: "Attack! Attack! Attack!" Said Abrams...