Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Americans had 1,000 field pieces pouring concentrated hell on Cisterna. Even so they had to repulse seven German tank thrusts before they moved in through a jungle of booby traps and mines and a mass of shattered and scorched tanks, half-tracks, trucks and self-propelled guns...
Their General Alphonse Pierre Juin and his high-ranking associates also took the eyes of true soldiers. Said a U.S. tank commander of one daring French brigadier general: "Look at him-right up at the front. They are all that way-goddam emotional but they go right up there with their...
Superficially she resembles an open shoe box, although she is highly complicated. Quarters for five officers and 48 men, plus space for 50 passengers (e.g., tank crewmen), besides stowage space and lockers are all in narrow hives in her high sides. In between is her big open well, where she will carry tanks and trucks. For protection she mounts 20-mm. antiaircraft guns...
There is another 155-mm. which U.S. artillerymen set much store by: a World War I gun mounted on a medium tank chassis (the M-12), making a highly mobile weapon which is used either in normal artillery fire (e.g., at unseen targets) or in direct fire, as on tanks...
There is another 155-mm. which U.S. artillerymen set much store by: a World War I gun mounted on a medium tank chassis (the M-12), making a highly mobile weapon which is used either in normal artillery fire (e.g., at unseen targets) or in direct fire, as on tanks...