Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They Just Bounced Off." His column had run into some German heavies. Before the tank commanders could get under cover, the captain of the unit had the top of his head taken off, at turret line. At that point the lieutenant had taken over. He had fired four rounds from his 37-mm. gun against a German heavy's hide. "They bounced off just like tennis balls," he said, "and we got to hell out of there." He gazed at his hand some more, and said again: "They bounced off, sons of bitches, just bounced...
...troop commander told his officers to pass the word to assemble the troop. The limping lieutenant, the tank commander, and the second in command followed him into the darkness. Only the sergeant was left in the room. "It's tough on them," he said. Soon the troop's armored cars, tanks and bantams (cavalry slang for jeeps), were rolling up the dark road, toward the rear. As we turned into the field where we would bivouac, the bearded sergeant said: "Well, it usually ends like this." He meant, not that it usually ended in retirement, but that...
...Twenty German infantry divisions and five armored divisions destroyed; twelve infantry and six Panzer divisions "badly cut up"; four more divisions hopelessly isolated in Brittany and the Channel Islands. The 47 dead and battered divisions included some of the Wehrmacht's prized paratroop and tank units...
Some U.S. tank columns zigzagged to set up the final trap against the Seine, but that and the original Argentan-Falaise pocket were now of lesser importance. The 1944 versions of Sheridan's cavalry crunched over the Seine, ground around Paris. They could now prevent formation of any line short of the Rhine...
...Among the Confederate dead in Sheridan's victory at Winchester, Va., (in 1864) was Colonel George S. Patton, V.M.I, man and grandfather of the U.S. Army's No. 1 expert in tank warfare...