Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Field Marshal Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, 63, who had commanded the First German Tank Army in the Caucasus. He was caught in Mitterfels by two doughboys of the U.S. 26th Division. The captors found 25 traveling bags packed for flight, a quantity of narcotics and hypodermic syringes, but apparently there was no food in the house. Shaking like a leaf, Kleist accepted some U.S. white bread...
...their machine-tool industry, the whole fertile Ukraine-and 6,000,000 casualties. The Allies had traded men and miles for time, and they were closed to the ragged edge. That September of 1942 the Germans stood at the Nile and the Volga. The British were digging tank traps in the Khyber Pass, to keep the Germans out of India...
...suicidal missions, full of cool recklessness and the yeast of humor and enthusiasm. At Gela, with 18 blackfaced men, he caught 52 Italian officers holed up in a hotel, unhesitatingly went in with grenades and automatics, killed or captured all. Once, with one companion, he took on a tank with a .50-caliber machine gun and knocked...
...took a bedsheet from a house, broke into a pharmacy, found mercurochrome and blue ink, made a crude representation of a U.S. flag and waved it from the tower of an ancient castle. The Russians, who had been tricked by Germans waving U.S. flags, sent over a few anti-tank shells...
...world's half-forgotten wars moved on in southern Burma. The advancing British Fourteenth Army neared Rangoon. The oil towns of Yenangyaung and Magwe fell; so did Toungoo. The foe seemed weak and confused: a single Japanese sentry stepped out to stop a British tank and was run over...