Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tank's Enemies. Most of the tanks knocked out in World War II have been victims of truck-drawn artillery. Such guns can be hidden in the earth until only the barrel shows, leaving no silhouette for the lumbering tanks to shoot...
...slight fog, at 6:20 on the morning of Nov. 20, 1917, the tank entered modern warfare. At that moment 378 steel monsters rolled toward the German lines on the Cambrai front. The armored vehicles, traveling at three miles an hour and closely followed by British infantry, ripped through the Germans' intricate barbed-wire defenses, slithered across their wide trenches. The surprised Germans bolted before the tanks' machine-gun fire. In ten hours 10,000 German soldiers surrendered. The Allied command lacked the wit or experience to make Cambrai a decisive victory, but the tank had made...
...World War II Nazi Panzers swarmed through Poland, crushing everything before them. They pushed through the Lowlands and France to Dunkirk. The weapon Germany's enemies had neglected between wars seemed to be irresistible. The U.S. hurriedly withdrew its few light tanks from the cavalry and infantry and used them as a nucleus for an Armored Force. Bigger guns were mounted on bigger tanks (while U.S. factories in a prodigious tank program poured out earlier, obsolete models). Still heavier armor and welded construction appeared. By 1943, the U.S. Armored Force had burgeoned to 14 divisions...
...Tank's Reversal. The necessities and lessons of war had set men to work on mobile guns which would knock out tanks. By last week many military observers believed that the anti-tank men had succeeded. The stock of the tank had dropped precipitously...
...Said Major General Levin Campbell, the Army's Ordnance chief, last fortnight: "In France, in Poland, in the Balkans, Germany pitted tanks against fixed fortifications and against infantry. . . . There were no good anti-tank weapons against them." The German tanks had only to be "fast enough to rumble through after the enemy's artillery had been blasted from its fixed positions, which were easy to hit." The highly touted 60-ton German Mark VI, said the General, is a flop...