Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heard the Allied guns pounding 25 miles away, the editor of the Kölnische (Cologne) Zeitung wrote an editorial: "The steam roller of the Allied air force, supported by tank divisions, has driven back our Wehrmacht. If only we had three additional air fleets and ten additional Panzer divisions...
Free Parking. Throughout Sept. 3, 4 and 5, German columns following behind the original columns and unaware of the trap that had been sprung continued to bump into our lines around Mons. An American MP directing traffic during the night discovered that he had just motioned a Mark V tank into the assembly area and the German tank had obediently followed his hand signal. Another civilian car loaded with German officers blithely rode into the middle of an American tank column before it was discovered by an officer in a jeep and shot...
...that matter, if the robot is improved as much as the tank and the plane were between wars, one end of the shambles might be in New York...
André Malraux, 49-year-old revolutionary French novelist (Man's Fate, Man's Hope), International Brigade air squadron leader in the Spanish Civil War, tank corps veteran of the 1940 Battle of France, reported killed by the Nazis, turned up again as leader of 1,000 Maquis in the Limoges district. He had been captured by the Gestapo, freed by a patriot raid, and served as a liaison officer between the F.F.I, and the British...
Such cases cram the files of the Claims Office, which follows the Army wherever it goes, last week was following in the Army's tank tracks across France. Since the war began the Army's uniformed attorneys have had their hands full. In the United Kingdom alone (where most of the damage was to walls, fences, buildings and British cyclists hit by Army vehicles) the Army has already handled 15,000 claims, allowed 11,000, paid...