Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his stay in the bare, barred "juvenile tank" of Seattle's King County Jail, 16-year-old John Emberg often wished he were dead. He was a dull, shy, slack-chinned boy. When a tough red head named Chuck Thomas forced other boys to fight him, he backed away, posturing timidly. When he was beaten with shoes and belts, he wept...
Sometimes he screamed with pain. One night he was tied, head down, against the bars, and left with lighted cigarets between his toes. Jailers never bothered to investigate, and he was too terrified to complain. But last week, after he had been found dead in the tank's shower room, his teen-age cellmates callously told his story...
...that Marshal Ivan Konev's First Ukrainian Army had been able to penetrate six deep belts of defense between the starting point of his offensive and Gleiwitz. It was not in the books that his Russians could so quickly chew up the ring of gun points, trenches, minefields, tank traps that circled Gleiwitz and the other heavily populated cities...
Gleiwitz Kaput. The taking of Gleiwitz had been typical of Konev's technique. All through the fortified belts his tank-tipped spearheads had been in too much of a hurry to fight. If they rolled up to a strong point, they veered off until they found a soft spot, then zipped through. They had gone so fast that, in some cases, prepared defenses were not even manned...
...last General Sun Li-jen kicked off to clear the road to the junction with the paved Burma highway at Mongyu. We went up to watch. An infantry company lay waiting on a hill a mile from the Pinghai pocket, while below two tank units rolled back & forth through the Jap positions, machine-gunning and chewing up the banana thickets. Then Chinese infantry groped in to hunt for snipers. It was good to see these Chinese troops. They had fed well for a full year, their uniforms were clean, their helmets sat jauntily on their heads...