Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Medium bombers and fighter bombers swept low, peppering the countryside, shooting up an occasional enemy tank. Fighters strafed while others circled overhead. The Luftwaffe, either unwilling or unable to fight against such odds, stayed on the ground. It even passed up its chance at the Allied warships, which followed in the wake of minesweepers, wheeled into line and added their terrible blows...
...Istria. Prisoners from one regiment of reinforcements told Allied intelligence officers that half their motor transport and personnel had been destroyed on the way to the front by Allied air action, and that the remainder were decimated, as soon as they took up their line positions, by Allied tank attacks...
...emotional drive and spontaneity." Prisoners are always hungry: there is never enough to eat, although light diet makes for fitness, up to a point. Red Cross parcels are lifesavers but monotonous. The total lack of privacy makes a man develop "a kind of reptilian insensitiveness-like crocodiles in their tank at the Zoo, which walk over each other without either appearing to notice the other...
...will sail for overseas battlefields (destination: secret). The President and his people had not been chummy of late (Brazilians want more democracy), but here was something of which they could all be proud. For over two hours the ruler-straight lines swept past, replete with brand-new howitzers, anti-tank guns, mortars, armored cars, jeeps from...
Three men of their tank company, they wrote, had been given a few days off from screaming shells, air raids and their own cooking to go to Naples...