Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Global war no longer meant merely scattering troops to the ends of the earth; it now meant fighting bitter, agonizing battles 14,000 miles apart against full enemy forces. This was it: meeting the enemy face to face, ship for ship, tank for tank, plane for plane-and now, for a change, winning, at least sometimes...
...convoys and rubbed their eyes over the spy mission of tall Lieut. General Mark W. Clark, as they saw the first pictures of the American flag on African soil, they knew that at last, after a year of humiliation, they were active and aggressive participants at Armageddon. In the tank and plane factories, in the ammunition plants and the shipyards, there was good reason to work harder than ever...
...British officer, recently arrived from Egypt, told a U.S. Army tank class at Fort Knox that he once asked a captured German captain: "What do your fellows really think of the Italians?" The German replied: "Oh, about what the Russians think of the British and the Americans...
...General Dwight Eisenhower's "precision offensive" was tight-lipped Lieut. General Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, commanding the British First Army of vengeful veterans of Flanders and Dunkirk. Second in command was Major General Charles Ryder, commanding auxiliary U.S. assault troops and motorized infantry. R.A.F. Spitfires, equipped with a tank-busting cannon, and Brigadier General James Doolittle's planes covered the advance in the air. Offshore were units of the British Fleet...
Though De Gaullist guns thus disrupted Nazi preparations, Casablanca still managed to put up the stiffest of all resistance to the U.S. invasion. Foresighted George Patton shoved three tank columns ashore east and west of the sprawling city and hit first for an outlying reservoir. With that in his hands, he could cripple Casablanca if necessary. Soon parachutists seized the city's main airdrome and the tank force advanced...