Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emphasized the vital importance of individual civilian warfare, which he learned as a member of the poorly equipped Spanish Republican Army. He saw the difficulties unarmed people face in the mechanized Italian and German units and based his advice on tank and street-fighting experience gained in Madrid when that city was under seige...
Airmen argue for planes, insist that dive-bombers can blow a tank attack to smithereens. This is still partly theory, since nowhere in World War II have airplanes proved themselves able to stop tank attacks. Too often it is difficult to get enough planes into the air, and planes are often stymied by the bad weather that tanks thrive on. Tanks can be efficiently attacked from the air when surprised in big concentrations-but World War II armies have learned better...
After what Rommel has done even while the British have air superiority, General Bruce thinks there should be at least two, possibly four, tank-destroyer battalions with each combat division. He is quietly going about selling the idea to the Army. By autumn there will be 35,000 men at Camp Hood, and there will soon be half as many men in tank-destroyer outfits as in tanks...
...British, as Winston Churchill said (see p. 26) thought the battle was reaching a "wearing-down stage" and the British generals evidently were content to let it do so. But not Rommel. He lined up his 88-mm. guns in ambush. With a light tank force and possibly with false radio orders transmitted to British tanks (said Churchill: "I do not know what actually happened"), he lured the British to slaughter. At the end of the day 230 out of 300 British tanks had been destroyed. The Battle of Libya was lost that afternoon...
...night-when he is not busy plotting the next day's action-Rommel often turns teacher, assembles a quorum of tank officers, lectures them on the beauties of Naziism, the art of getting things done in wartime. Correspondent Harold Denny, who was captured by Rommel's forces last year, reported on his release that Rommel liked to lecture captured British officers on the fallacies of their tactics...