Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Graves. To the west, the British and Canadians were on traditional ground. There was only a skirmish near the graves of Canadians who had stormed the beach at Dieppe in August 1942. British tanks clanked over the Somme where in September, 28 years before, the first tank had straddled a German trench. Five years to the day after Britain's declaration of war on Nazi Germany, Tommies were greeted at Arras by the carillon of the 16th-Century Hotel de Ville. The bells rang out God Save the King. Brussels was liberated well ahead of schedule. Dunkirk, of proud...
Another lieutenant appears. Now only flashlights light our blacked-in room, and in their dimness the new arrival looks completely grey. He is all dust, from helmet to boots. He commands the troop's light tanks, which have been up against the Germans' heavier Mark IVs and VIs since the column left the beach. The only break in the tank commander's greyness is a red gash in his right index finger. He inspects the gash and says he got it buttoning up his tank. He tells his story briefly, tiredly, carefully...
...buzzing flies, the acrid, sickening stench made a horrible fantasy that our eyes could not accept. German tank in the road. Close by it were the three charred naked bodies of it crew. Near by, a troop carrier had plunged off the road. Its headless driver was still at the wheel...
There were cars of every kind but new ones, piled high with people. They waved flags and handkerchiefs, saluted, made the V sign. One girl sat on the hood of an old car, her arm aloft, her eyes burning with joy and pride. A captain sat on a tank, his hand held stiffly at attention, tears streaming down his face...
Plouvien had been left behind by U.S. tank columns bearing south to the siege of Brest, ten miles away. By the time their vanguard had passed, Plouvien's 2,500 citizens had decked their cottages with the tricolor and with homemade U.S. flags, The men came in from the fields to celebrate liberation...