Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Books and Death. In his dugout later, Rotmistrov met Soviet newsmen. Happily he talked of J. B. Priestley's Blackout in Gretley, of cabbages, and kings, and strategy. The newsmen were impressed: this tall, athletic man was a hero, one of Russia's ablest tank tacticians. Stooping over a map, he explained how the troops of the Second Ukrainian Front made a narrow breach in the German defenses, converted it into a major triumph...
...Under other circumstances we might have waited until the breach was widened. This time, however, the entire mass of our tanks was thrown into the breach. . . . Then, at once, they spread out behind the enemy lines. . . . Part of them reinforced our flanks; the main force continued to push forward to meet the tank forces of the First Ukrainian Front...
...fast and sudden was Rotmistrov's tank thrust, the Germans had no time to halt it. Then the Red artillery began to pound the encircled Germans, the air force launched its air blockade. In 14 days, 179 three-engined Junkers bringing in food and ammunition were shot down...
...Hitler's order was clear: resist−or die. The Germans fought. Rotmistrov's old enemy, Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein, whom he had whipped a year earlier below Stalingrad, hurled eight tank divisions against the ring. The ring was dented, but it did not break...
...narrow mountain passes dug-in Japs threw back tank, infantry and artillery attacks. Others burrowed through jungle and mountain areas considered, impassable in any kind of weather, trapped the 7th Indian Division by severing its communication lines. At week's end, the 7th Division was still encircled; but the Japs were slowly falling back under a flanking threat from West African troops who had wormed eastward...