Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best general, dashing, cavalry-trained Semion Timoshenko, it had turned a tremendous striking force against Kharkov, throwing its encircling arms around both sides of the city while it battered frontally against the German fortifications. The Germans estimated the Russian strength at 20 infantry divisions, three cavalry divisions, 15 tank brigades. And the Germans were taken by surprise...
Thrice before, the Axis had struck eastward across North Africa, twice before the British had counter-driven to the west. Now for the fourth time the Axis attacked. From tank parks south of Derna, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the Nazis' smartest desert general, sent his divisions toward the Allied post at Bir Hacheim south of Tobruk. While Italian tanks made a holding attack on the post and were beaten off by Free French defenders with a loss of 35 Axis machines, 250 German tanks made an end run clear around Bir Hacheim, veered north toward the coast and Tobruk...
Chapter Six. Erwin Rommel was wielding the most massive ground forces the Axis had ever had in Africa, in five campaigns over the same ground. The British also had never been stronger. Their arsenal included new U.S. medium tanks as well as U.S. planes, and their manpower included U.S. mechanics-the most essential of personnel in tank warfare, where 50% to 90% of the machines in action are often disabled in a single battle...
...German tanks, still packed more firepower than the British, but this advantage was being cut down fast. The British had learned that they could match heavier firepower with tactical skill, smoke screening, ganging up-exactly as three British cruisers had harried the pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee to her doom off Montevideo. Tank warfare in the desert resembles sea war in more ways than one: the taking of ground means nothing; the location and destruction of the hostile land fleets everything...
...They might need to transfer to the East Coast run many of the tank cars now tied up for local service in the Middle West-even if that requires some politically inexpedient form of mild rationing in the Mississippi Valley...