Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasonable guess may be that Germany has developed a rocket launcher-perhaps something like an enlarged version of the U.S. Army's tank-busting bazooka-and hopes to use it, not for any futuristic terror bombing of London, but for a rapid-fire barrage of explosive projectiles against Allied invasion craft in the Channel...
...Eighth's new chief has long worn the Crusader patch on his shoulder: he had led the Eighth's XXX Corps, its tank spearpoint, all the desert way from El Alamein to Tunis. Son of a Hertfordshire solicitor, product of Eton and the Coldstream Guards, Sir Oliver was thrice wounded in World War I. He fought with World War II's B.E.F. in Flanders, still has a score to pay for Dunkirk...
...Germans grew increasingly jittery about Allied designs on the mountainous shore of the Adriatic, just across from Italy. Axis-controlled Zagreb sent out a feeler. It reported Allied landings in force on the Yugoslav shore, where the Second German Tank Army keeps spotty guard. The report was wrong only in its exaggeration of the force: parties of officers and specialists had been landed to help the Partisans of Marshal Tito (Josip Broz...
...Blow That Failed. The Partisans had a hard week. Tito threw a unit of his fighters, scantily equipped with captured Nazi and Italian tanks and artillery, against Banja Luka-a rail terminus, communications center, headquarters of the Second Tank Army. After three days of fighting Tito reported that the Partisans had taken half the town, were moving through it block by block. Then the Germans rushed tanks and reinforcements from the northeast. Short of munitions, the Partisans had to pull...
...soldiers. It also came from the new or transplanted war factories. Russian engineers performed miracles in expanding production, modernizing old weapons, creating new ones. Russia's Katusha antedated the U.S. bazooka, the German rocket gun. New, high-velocity, armor-piercing shells enabled the Red Army to retain anti-tank guns once thought too light to tackle the German Tiger...