Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Observers of the German collapse were also beginning to believe that there was no hard German line of defense to guard the roads to Paris. The U.S. tank columns found the propagandized Rommel Line thin and brittle: there seemed to be no fixed line of solid defenses west of the Maginot and Siegfried forts...
What Manner of Man? Guderian's appointment to replace bumbling, Nazified Colonel General Kurt Zeitzler surprised military observers in the Allied capitals (and perhaps in Germany as well). The choice raised puzzling questions. Why did an Army everywhere in retreat need a tank specialist as its top planner? Was Guderian to be the strong man for the Army, or a figurehead for Hitler himself? Was his main job military (to revise Army strategy) or political (to hold the lid down during a ruthless purge of "unreliable" elements)? Was Guderian himself politically reliable, as far as the Party was concerned...
...immediate strategy of the Norman campaign still pointed southeast from Caen. Beyond it was tank country. There Monty could employ bolder tactics, for which his fast-stepping Sherman and Cromwell tanks were designed...
...Tank and By Foot. The breakout by the armored forces was swift, decisive. U.S. tankmen swept out into the open fields from the woods that tankers hate...
...Devonians found their cottages windowless, their churches damaged, their schools partly demolished by shellfire. The hedgerows were tattered and ragged, the lanes churned deep by tank tracks. Prim cottage gardens and the rich red fields were overgrown with weeds. Rabbits, multiplying by the thousands, played and fed with unchecked abandon, while the rooks wheeled and cawed overhead. Flies foraged in impudent battalions...