Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Liquidation. Valdasar Lopez put a hose in a tugboat tank, turned on a valve, relaxed on deck while the tug took on water. He awoke in Manhattan's North River after the tug went to the bottom...
...rnell, Commander in Chief of all Swedish armed forces, has 600,000 men at his command. The standard yardstick allows about half of these as combat divisions, but more could be mobilized in a pinch. Sweden has plenty of small arms, Swedish-made Bofors anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns. The army is well trained, but not battle-tested. It lacks sufficient tanks and heavy armaments, is woefully weak in fighter planes, which were ordered from the U.S. in 1940 but later diverted to China. When German military power was at its height on the Continent, Thörnell took...
Along the southern coast of the Mediterranean, from Algeria to Syria, Allied infantrymen, paratroopers, tank drivers and gun crews were waiting for the zero hour-the hour when the bombers had battered Europe's underside enough for the land fighting to begin...
...guarding a pass, force the pass and spread out on the plain to Kairouan. Those who watched a brigade of Guards take the dominant hill north of Fondouk in half an hour, who later saw the British armor plunge through a 450-yard-deep minefield covered by twelve anti-tank guns and speed for Kairouan, felt that there was something essentially wrong with the 34th, which had been unable to take the hills on the south side of the pass. The four U.S. correspondents who saw that battle went to Major General Charles W. Ryder's headquarters...
...into the big, water-clear crystal on the cutting stand. But the big crystal under the wheel is not a diamond. It is quartz, the most abundant of all minerals but a newly prized jewel of war. Once ground to size, it is the governor of ship, plane and tank communications, an indispensable monitor of the accuracy of range-finding instruments and fire-control devices...