Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important Army, Navy, Marine or Air Corps posts that one or another of our Army & Navy reporters has not visited for you in the past three years-in the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, Great Britain, Australia or the Hawaiians. They have looped in gliders at Twentynine Palms, sweated in tanks at Fort Knox, Ky., slid in the snow with the ski troopers on Mt. Rainier. They have visited scores of aircraft factories, tank arsenals and munitions plants-spent hours and even days in the testing laboratories and on the firing ranges -sailed on some of our biggest war ships...
...Bloody Slow. On that night some 200 R.A.F. planes attacked the Renault truck and tank works at Billancourt, near Paris. It was a "saturation raid" of a type soon to become familiar to the Germans in the homeland. What Harris had done was to mass bombers on a scale never at tempted by his predecessors. He was soon to do it on a scale never possible to the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain...
...thing to give bread to the people of Warsaw to see them through the first winter of freedom and to give seed for planting and pigs for breeding stock to Polish farmers, quite another to set the Poles up in the dairy business with new barns, tractors, tank trucks, cheese factories, and all the capital paraphernalia of advanced farming. Though such investment may be worth while, it will have to compete on economic terms with the attraction of similar possible investments in China, in Brazil, in the U.S. South...
Seventeen days out of their embarkation port, in the early subarctic dawn, crowded American troop transports raised the headlands of the bleak volcanic island. Mothered by destroyers, fleets of tank lighters nursed their way through rock-infested bays in fog so thick that a ship was blotted out 100 yards away...
...requirement. On Britain's coast, selected soldiers merged the lore of the Royal Navy with their own. They learned how to "get in and out of a small boat in all kinds of weather"; to swim, fully equipped, holding their firearms above water; to know about mortars, anti-tank rifles, high explosives. They also had to learn the double lesson of cooperation, individual initiative. Each man was encouraged "to do everything with a friend"-fall in beside him, handle the magazine of his Bren gun, scout with him, conquer with him the tough assault-training course known...