Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heavier landing craft, following in, brought more troops, light vehicles, anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns. Then as the beachheads were established, the Army started its materiel pouring in-armored cars, field artillery, heavy trucks, supplies, ordnance repair crews, signal equipment...
Moscow said that the Germans used six panzer divisions (200 tanks each), a motorized division, and seven infantry divisions in the opening attacks from Orel; five regular tank divisions, four smaller armored divisions (150 tanks each), and seven infantry divisions in the attacks from Belgorod-where the Russians made their only admissions of sustained German gains. In an aside to the U.S. and Britain, Moscow also said that the Germans had transferred, two bomber fleets and one night-fighter fleet from Western Europe...
...Gunnison, checked up on the automobiles at trout streams, made the mistake of leaving their own car unguarded while they ate in a Gunnison restaurant. They departed with 1) severe intestinal disturbances presumably caused by doped food, 2) an automobile damaged ($200 worth) by sugar dropped in the gas tank...
...pattern calls for buildings, trees or a complete scene, this is painted from blueprints on laid-out rolls of mesh. Rolled up, marked for reassembling, the mesh is shipped overseas to hide airdromes, tank farms, gun emplacements. So well has the mesh worked that it is fast replacing spun glass and steel wool camouflage covers. Boasted Camoufleur Kleiser: "A robin built a nest in one of our fake trees in Seattle. It has to be good to fool a robin...
...nowhere near through making production records. His three big new Eastern plants will not be in full production till midsummer, and last week he announced the lease of still another huge factory: at the request of the Army, next month Douglas will take over General Motors' Los Angeles tank plant...