Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They got it. Rocket-firing Typhoons, before going on to shoot up Nazis, landed on the runways with auxiliary fuel tanks full of beer. Swarms of the thirsty gathered round with enamel mugs. The first tank-fuls tasted bad because of the tank linings; this flavor was overcome by chemical means and later loads were delicious. Just like the corner pub at home...
Three More Months. Barring unexpected catastrophes of battle, the war peak will be reached in three more months, stay on a plateau for a little while, then start downward. Some war items may even be stepped up (e.g., tank production, only a trickle for months, was ordered into high gear last week when beachhead tank losses in France were bigger than anticipated; in addition, Rear Admiral Emory S. Land announced that merchantship production would soon be stepped up). But a scheduled cut in overall war production is at last in view. Then the U.S. will be smack up against many...
Enough dust swirled over the tank-churned roads of Normandy to remind ex-Desert Fox Erwin Rommel of Africa. But there the resemblance ended. There was no room among the copses, apple orchards, and hedge-crossed fields of Calvados for the great sweeps of "land battleships" that Rommel had used in the wastes of Libya...
Into a quadrangle bounded by Balleroy, Tilly-sur-Seulles, Villers-Bocage and Caumont (see map), both the Allied armies and the enemy threw infantry-tank combat teams. The British got into Tilly, got thrown out, tried to get in again. The cost, in men and vehicles, was becoming too steep...
...Japs but supply. All bombs, gas and technical equipment must be flown in over the "Hump" route from India. Planes bringing in gas use several times the amount of their payload, just to get it there; the B-29s have proved to be their own most efficient tank cars. How much they can haul, and how often they can crank up new raids, now rates a spot well up on the crowded list of things the Japs must worry about...