Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crossing the enemy coast, the P-51 Mustang was purring sweetly. Lieut. William B. Overstreet, of Clifton Forge, Va., switched on a full tank of gas, noted the time, 2 p.m.; the altitude, 23,000 feet. Suddenly Overstreet had a vague feeling of being alone, his engine dead, his plane gliding in slow spirals...
...switched to another full fuel tank. Then, incredulous, he noted the time. It was 3:30; his altitude was only 5,000 feet. The engine caught. The French landscape below was more or less familiar...
Added taciturn Private Max G. Peterson, former rigger of Marlinton, W.Va.: "The officer commanding my tank got a wound in his head, bandaged it himself and kept going...
...learned to drive a motorboat, a motorcycle, trucks, a tank and a locomotive, married, fathered a son, won his commission, reached North Africa in May 1943, saw action on May 24, was hospitalized in August and September, made 21 combat jumps (the 21st on the day he left the hospital), was decorated, and wrote: "Over here in Italy it is very pretty. . . . There are many old historic places like Pompeii, etc. . . . But even with all this, I'd give anything to plant my feet on some U.S. dirt again...
Corporal Arthur Madison: "We went down to the 628 tank destroyer outfit and had a class on how to drive a tank and they let us try it out. . . . We would be cruising along peacefully like when all of a sudden we would be flying through the air and when we came down, what a jolt ! Now there is a difference between a tank destroyer called a T.D. and a regular tank...