Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Ted Norris, Johnny Watkins, and Howard Simpson sparking the onslaught, the tank men drowned Connecticut State Saturday afternoon by a score of 52 to 21. Winning every event except the 50 yard freestyle and the dive, and taking ten of the fourteen win and place slots, the swimmers took an early lead that increased as the meet wore...
...Overpowered. In Kimama, Idaho, a tank containing 5,000 gallons of water burned down...
While Canada's UNO delegates planned for peace in London, Reconstruction Minister Clarence Decatur Howe made a cautious hedge in Ottawa. Against the possibility that Canada might be caught short again as she was in 1939 (when tank regiments went overseas minus tanks), he added what he called "a fourth service" to the armed forces. Its title: Canadian Arsenals...
...also disclosed a taut, little major general who is as little known as the service which he heads. Alden Harry Waitt joined CWS when it was organized in 1918, has stayed with it ever since, taking time out to earn an aviator's wings and qualify as a tank driver. A training accident made Waitt so allergic to tear gas that the slightest whiff of it puts him on the sick list...
...rifle company runner, was a Doubting Thomas. He doubted himself, his friends, his own judgment and abilities. Eventually he stopped caring what happened to him, and acted with exceptional bravery because he began to look on death as a pretty comfortable state. ¶ A shy, 24-year-old tank destroyer corporal was afraid of cars and girls. But he recognized his defects, read popular articles about psychoneurotics and was determined not to be one. Faith in his church, cheery letters from his sisters, and a firm belief in the strength of his armor plate kept him going until headaches...