Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon after, the news came. His son, Captain James L. Denig, Marine tank officer, had been killed in the fighting...
Last week the gadget came off the secret list. It is the Piat (Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank) and it fires a 2.75-lb. bomb which explodes on impact with a violence sufficient to penetrate four inches of tempered armor plate. But the Piat does not employ the bazooka's rocket principle. Its projectile, like a mortar shell, is propelled by the explosion of a cartridge in the base. Rear half of the tube houses a powerful steel spring which takes up the recoil, re-cocks itself and operates the firing pin for the next shot. In combat...
While it was still dark on Sunday morning, members of Company B, 27th Tank Battalion at Camp Campbell, Ky. were awakened into a dream. No bugle but a little musical bell sounded reveille in the barracks. With proper but unprecedented politeness, mess attendants stepped up to the bunks and said: "Here's the menu; will you have breakfast...
...startled soldiers stopped pinching themselves when their commander, Captain Kenneth F. Maxcy Jr. told them it was no cruel gag. It was their reward for a crack job in tank crew gunnery...
...Army already has four longtime tractor-makers at work: Caterpillar, International Harvester, Allis-Chalmers and Cleveland Tractor. Besides that, two big plants have recently been switched from tank production: American Car & Foundry's at Berwick, Pa. and the new ordnance plant at Decatur, Ill., which got ready for production too late to be needed for tanks. Next month when they are due to be in full swing the tractor program will get a real shot...