Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celluloid front, the U.S. still has no pattern except that which Mellett will provide when he gets around to it. Hollywood's and the Government's few war documentaries have been a hodgepodge of patriotic appeals, expositions on tank construction, sugar-coated shots of training troops, etc. These films have failed to keep the U.S. public informed on the progress of the war, to tell it why tires have to be rationed, to relate the vast complexity of global war to the individual citizen...
...last desperate attempt to break through, the invaders threw into the melee their "panzer" division--a truck with the label "Tank" on its sides, but the nefarious machine was stopped in its tracks by a deadly burst of point-blank artillery fire...
...were a groggy but still brutally strong fighter recovering from his winter knockdown and shaking the mist from his brain. Both sides admitted fierce enemy attacks-repulsed, of course-and neither side claimed the capture of any important town. In the south, the Germans sent up tank replacements painted green for spring...
...weapon. As a bomber it could fly from the U.S. to Berlin with 75-125 tons of bombs tucked in its belly, still have plenty of fuel for the return trip. As a transport it could tote 125 fully equipped soldiers, have room for a light 13½-ton tank to boot...
...alloy is used in airplane engine coolers and radiators, ignition systems, cabin heaters, fuselage construction, parachute rip cords, anti-aircraft guns, machine guns, anti-tank guns, shells and torpedoes...