Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bloody Embarrassment. A British major who was at Dunkirk remarked: "Their discipline is far worse than ours was at Dunkirk. They had anti-tank guns and artillery and could have held us off and put up a better show than this. They have had no refugees to contend with either. I think this rather more than makes up for Dunkirk...
This lesson the Russians taught the world first. Before the Germans' massed Panzer assaults of two years ago the Russians set up defenses in depth, teamed infantry with anti-tank teams and smashed up tank assaults...
...many a job to do. When the Allied invasion of Europe unfolds full scale, fast armored divisions may be able to fan out over great stretches of terrain, chewing up opposing infantry and communications. But even that can happen only after Allied infantry has disposed of the German anti-tank artillery, which is poison to spearheads of tanks...
...such a change Lieut. General Jacob L. Devers, Chief of the U.S. Armored Force, like any other sound soldier, sees no reflection on his tanks, only the result of the ebb & flow of battle doctrine. Said he: "While capable of smashing through the severest obstacle, [the armored division's] most important use is against vital enemy rear areas . . . air, armor, artillery and infantry must be properly combined and their individual capabilities exploited. ... The tank, like the battleship and the airplane, is merely a means of carrying fire power to the enemy...
...five times its peacetime production. His reasons: 1) inadequate, manpower-wasting equipment will be replaced as the capacity to make it is freed from more pressing work; 2) worn-out tools will boom the replacement business; 3) new weapons, new military strategy will call for new tools (e.g., a tank-making tool is no good if you want to make a "bazooka...