Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...called for a tank, rode atop it in a rain of fire as it sprayed the hedgerows. The tank driver was wounded. Paddy crawled down, went forward afoot. A sniper's bullet got him as he led his patrol into the shelter of a farmhouse...
...those places "which have to be captured from all sides." Last week Marshal Rokossovsky's army group gained ground north of the city, in attacks toward the Warsaw-Bialystok railroad. Some 100 miles to the south, in sweltering hot weather, Marshal Konev fought off repeated German tank and infantry attacks, developed a huge salient across the Vistula, from which a northward drive toward Warsaw might roll up the Germans on the west bank...
Even though Pisa and Florence were monuments of European culture they were astride a military line, and that line the Germans were bent on holding if they could. Through both cities the Arno flowed between masonry banks, making it a perfect tank trap and barrier to infantry. The Allies held the south bank, the Germans the north. So the war in Italy became a peculiar kind of delicate slugging match among the museums, with world-famous art in no man's land...
When the first U.S. tank troops rolled into Rennes last week they found most of the city's 80,000 citizens singing, crying, dancing arm-in-arm in the streets and the parks. They threw flowers at passing tanks...
...Dear Mom: We were going through some hedgerows toward Saint-Lô today, Mom, and a German burp-gun got on me and I ducked in a ditch and set off a Teller mine, and a Tiger tank ran right over my ditch, and a squad of Boche infantry started heaving fragmentation grenades at me and I got to thinking, Mom, of old Bess and her about to have pups again, and Mom, we can't have them pups born into a world that ain't free and bright, can we, even...