Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They could not identify him. They captured three more alive-one of them a lieutenant general commanding a tank corps-bringing their total of German generals killed or captured to 14 since the offensive started. The Nazis were not even able to save their top command posts from the slashing, battering attacks of the Russians...
...clear that the long drive on Germany's oil had been more effective than the most optimistic airmen had hoped it could be. Now the" blistering attack reached everything from refineries and plants, deep in Germany and the Balkans, to oil dumps behind the fighting lines and tank trucks on the roads of Normandy and Italy...
...seven next morning, many of Civitella's women & children were still in bed. A German tank, mounting a flamethrower, rumbled slowly through the village street. As it passed each house, its fire-spitting nozzle licked a blast of flame through the open window. The sleeping mothers and children were burned to death where they lay; the houses went up in flames. Then the tank turned and blocked one end of the street...
...dirt behind a wall. Ernie, who was talking to a couple of them, kept standing and kept his hands in his pockets. I watched his face as he went down the street and he was scared all right. A little later we got mixed up in a tank-v.-pillbox duel and the pillbox knocked the tank out right outside of the house where we were. I said, "Let's get out of here," and Ernie said, "O.K., you get a start and then I'll follow you." I ran about 25 yards, didn't see Ernie...
Military students who remembered similar predictions about the machine gun, the airplane, the tank, and poison gas remained skeptical. But none could doubt that terrifying new vistas of destruction had been opened...