Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Higgins to build a boat that would carry tanks into water shallow enough for them to roll ashore. He tried an amphibious tractor ("alligator") that Donald Roebling had invented for rescue use in the Florida Everglades. For two years the aluminum cleats always came off the alligator. But it was the forerunner of today's amphibious tank...
Three days after the Kwajalein Island assault, the Army's 7th Division had driven the enemy into the northern corner. For the final mop-up, TIME Correspondent William Chickering joined a tank crew, radioed this tank's-eye-view account...
...right was a group of infantrymen maneuvering around an area of thrashed foliage. We passed so close we could look into their eyes as though it were in a movie closeup. Not seeing the periscopes, they were unaware of our scrutiny. They seemed even unaware of the tank. Their eyes were sharp, wary, tired, but not alarmed...
...last week Heidt Time produced two apparently bona fide candidates. One was a signalman who had served on the aircraft carrier Enterprise', the other was a U.S. Army tank-destroying veteran of Tunisia. Both men got job offers...
Flood from the West. Made-in-America supplies were still rolling into England last week. At one medium-sized port, U.S. troops and British civilian workers swarmed aboard cargo ships, unloaded tanks, jeeps, guns; unloaded and assembled 65-ton diesel locomotives, 300-ton floating cranes; attached wheels and accessory equipment to scores of tank cars...