Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies were not merely waiting for that trap to spring. American and British tank columns cut eastward along Adolf Hitler's wide superhighways with overwhelming power. The farthest advanced Americans were only 198 miles from the nearest Russians. What was left to the Germans for the defense of Berlin, of Leipzig and Munich was a beaten, confused, retreating mass that could turn to fight only in knots of resistance. The last hope of the Nazi command seemed to be only this : abandon the north-south defense of Germany as speedily as possible and pivot to hold the southern bastion...
...even that hope was in danger. If the western Allies and the Russians, beating up from the Austrian frontier, could meet quickly, the bastion would be useless. Allied tank columns tore southeast toward Nürnberg at week...
...sniping is done from a house flying a white flag the Americans treat it as they would a military obstacle. Here & there you come to a house that has been completely smashed and whose timbers are still smoldering. If resistance comes from a house, there is no dickering: a tank crew blows it apart, and rolls calmly on. After a few such examples the word seems to get around. The motto of the armormen is: if they want war they can have...
...read in TIME (Mar. 12) that the tank drivers at Chrysler threatened to strike because the proving grounds were dusty. . . . This brings to mind several problems confronting your union. . . . Have any representations been made to the management concerning the Tetter mines which are scattered all over Siegfried Proving Grounds? Has a vote been taken on a strike on account of the quantity of German 88s that keep getting into the tanks? Has the movement to secure a 20-hour day received any support? Particularly, I have been wondering about a problem that makes these proving grounds almost unbearable-that...
...artillery had been battle-proved as topflight; its grenades were at least as good as the Germans', probably better; its rolling stock, from jeeps to tank carriers, was better than any other army could hope to have. On total score, the U.S. Army was far out in front in quantity, quality and variety of weapons...