Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eugene Moore joined the Marines just a year ago; he was one of those landed on Gavutu Island in the Solomons. His tank proceeded up the beach that day in advance of the infantry, spied a Jap pillbox, stopped to fire. Out of a bomb shelter near by poured a horde of reckless, howling Japs. They swarmed over the tank, jammed a crowbar in the tank-track...
...their laurels and an empty keg of Pabst Blue Ribbon the rest of the way. The first score, chalked up 30 seconds before the opening whistle, came about after a pass, a punt, a prayer, and a foul ball into the left field stands. Refusing to use his anti-tank division until the opening of a second front, Hesdman Rocknelberry Fenn used three full teams and an umpire in subaning the hapless Hanoverians...
...Good Drive!" The President rode between two giant assembly lines, where a hundred General Lees-the new all-welded medium tank-were abuilding. He waved to 5,000 astounded workmen, who lined up in a solid wall to greet him. On the testing ground, he watched 50 tanks roar through mud and dust. One tank drove straight at him, slogged through a muddy testing hole, ground to a stop ten feet away. The young Polish driver stuck his dirty face from the turret and grinned. "A good drive!" shouted the President...
...tenth Boy Scout law reads: "A Scout is brave. He has the courage to face danger. . . ." Last week good Scout Charles Follette Jr., 14, had the courage. At a football game in Ellwood City, Pa., the gas tank of a popcorn wagon exploded, set the wagon on fire. Keeping a crowd away from the flames, Scout Follette was fatally burned...
...Moscow's Tass said that Berlin had given Vichy permission to reinforce its North African garrisons with three new infantry divisions, a tank regiment, two artillery regiments and one air group...