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Word: tankful (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...order to achieve anything as a unit, we must have a coordinated army (air, tank, infantry, etc.). This formation would take at least twelve months to form into a battle unit. At that time we would have to transport them to the field of action before the music would start...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Paper Warriors | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...produced 21,000 anti-tank guns, six times greater than our 1941 production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Road to Berlin | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

...howitzer mounted on a medium-tank chassis, which helped beat Rommel. Because of a pulpitlike antiaircraft mount, the British call it The Priest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: School for Amateurs | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...nearby Martin aircraft plant or even the entire Panama Canal to protect them from bombers. >Newest chemical grenade is a small smoke-producer that belches a cloud of green, red, purple or any other color. It was developed on the Army's demand for a method of tank identification in the dust-choked confusion of desert fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: School for Amateurs | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

...wants something on wheels. Thus, the model Hurricane fighter (with rubber tires) which the R.A.F. gave Iraq's seven-year-old King Feisal last year was just right. En route to Feisal last week was another device, a belated Christmas present: a three-foot-long General Grant tank with a swiveling turret. It had wheels in stead of treads, but the chains were gold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 11, 1943 | 1/11/1943 | See Source »

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