Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...white clapboard farmhouse with old-fashioned gambrel roof, dormer windows, neat flower boxes at the window sills. It is also the home office, sales branch and factory of the Harrington Bros. Machine Tool & Fixture Co., manufacturers of $1,000-a-month worth of machine tools for making shells and tank turrets...
...World War I he served as a lieutenant colonel at the tank-training center in Pennsylvania. He would have liked to join the Air Corps but Mamie Eisenhower had objected. The war was scarcely over when Colonel Eisenhower became convinced that a new world conflict was brewing and he set himself to studying modern warfare with the assiduity with which some men study storms, trying to figure out what is coming so that they can handle...
...himself in officers' schools, became known respectfully as a "brain" in the Army and a top-drawer junior officer. When Douglas MacArthur became Chief of Staff, Eisenhower for a time was his aide. Mechanization was a fetish with MacArthur, and so it was with Eisenhower. He was a tank...
...General Mark Wayne Clark, 46. A graduate of West Point, tall, poker-stiff Mark Clark fought in France in World War I, is known as a strict disciplinarian and a thoroughgoing soldier. His creed: every U.S. fighting man should be taught to fight with any weapon, and from a tank, a truck, a boat or on foot-especially on foot. Clark's grouse is that the army is becoming road-bound. Offensive-minded, he has talked often and pointedly about a second front. "The sooner the better," he summed it up. "We are not here...
...finally as chief of the I Corps of the Armored Force. Behind his back he is known to his men as "Flash Gordon" because of the helmet he wears and the grim face he sticks out of a turret as he bounces hell-for-leather across country in his tank. Succinct and profane, Patton once asked a private what he was shooting at during maneuvers. "A concealed machine gun, sir," said the private. "That's not a machine gun," Patton roared. "It's a dirty Nazi bastard...