Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another street Sergeant Howard Finch (Sheldon, Iowa) found himself in a building with Germans in the basement below. He boldly hung out the window, signaled wildly to an approaching Sherman tank, then jumped back as the tank hurled five shells through the basement window a few feet below...
...Infantry Flees. Tanks within the town hugged the buildings to escape German shelling. One Sherman was hit and set afire beside an outpost building with one room intact. Privates Tony de Meo (Brooklyn) and Fred Ratcliff (Pontiac, Mich.) sweated as the tank's 75-mm. shells began to explode just outside the room. Then they vaulted from the window and dashed to safety with snipers' bullets pinging through the air around them...
Trie Committee had made its original report on the Navy's tank-lighter program on Aug. 5, 1942. It withheld the report at Navy request. It was made public by the Committee last week, "first, because its publication was delayed originally solely at the request of the Navy Department . . . and, second, because the committee believes that procurement officials . . . should bear constantly in mind the fact that improper decisions will be brought to the attention of Congress...
Reported an official Army observer: ". . . it became apparent that the Navy Bureau-type tank lighter was in trouble. She appeared to have a tendency to dive . . . was taking considerable water aboard. She stopped several times and members of the crew could be seen manning hand pumps. . . . Once when under way . . . it appeared that the lighter was going to overturn . . . the coxswain had left the pilot house and was steering the vessel from the rail" (obviously preparing for a quick getaway if she foundered...
Crecca: We just got some disconcerting information regarding a possible change in the design of the tank lighters...