Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...urgent need for this block was clear: Rommel lost no time in making tactical counterattacks with his 21st Panzers. Around Caen the first tank battles of the invasion were fought. But they were preliminary, minor skirmishes compared with what was to be expected when Rommel finally struck...
...biggest step forward was the development of a method of making penicillin in tanks instead of in flasks. The tank ("submerged") method has saved much labor, cut the minimum cycle of the mold's growth from six to three days, helped cut the price of penicillin nearly 85%. Present average costs of penicillin treatments: $35 for severe septicemia (1,000,000 units), $5 for gonorrhea (150,000 units...
...could see across the channel up on a hill behind it, gun flashes. So I stopped right in the middle of the street and started shelling the gun positions. By this time they were giving it to us hot and heavy, but we were giving plenty back. Each tank was down a street and shelling the hill...
...that you think back on it. The town itself was deserted and had been heavily bombed, and to sit there, everything sort of quiet and deserted, ruined buildings all around you, shutters banging in the breeze. By this time it was getting very hot and stuffy in the tank so we climbed out and took a smoke, cleaned the brass up in the tank and stuff. Then one of the Frenchmen comes up with a bottle of wine and we all had a smoke and drank the bottle of wine. A shell lands behind the tank and sort of makes...
...From a tank-destroyer unit's invasion base in England, he reported a conversation with Sergeant Dick Showalter, a gun-crew commander from Muncie, Ind. Wrote Correspondent Pyle...