Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British and U.S. troops every day practice assault tactics along Britain's serrated coasts, grimly splashing ashore under live gunfire, simulating actual battle, sometimes dying in the winter waves. Camouflaged trucks rumble endlessly through country lanes. Farmers' fields feel the strange bite of tank treads. By night the R.A.F.'s soft drumming fills the sky. By day people stop still in the streets to watch the silvery bomber formations high overhead: "Blimey, look how tight those Americans keep together...
...Road Back. In that winter of disaster, the Germans retreated some 400 miles, lost (according to Moscow) 1,200,000 men and 5,000 planes, gave up Vyazma, Rzhev, Kharkov, Belgorod, Rostov, a foothold in Voronezh. Manstein, retreating along the southern fringe of Russia, shrewdly caught advanced Russian tank columns in the March mud and out of fuel, recaptured Belgorod and Kharkov, subsequently wrote a sometimes brilliant, sometimes mistaken, always futile chapter in the tactics of retreat...
...latest collection is called Who's In Charge Here? (Farrar & Rinehart; $2.50), and its first printing of 28,500 was already sold out last week. The work includes no supernaturally levitated figures, but in one drawing an echelon of six flying fish completes a bank-turn above their tank in a pet store. The proprietor explains to a customer: "We don't sell them singly, Madam. It breaks up the formation...
...special officers attached to each column directing the air attacks by radio. Soon panic spread through the German ranks. Their lines gave. Savage fighting boiled over into the streets of Gorodok. By 2 o'clock one afternoon last week, the German garrison-two infantry divisions, one tank division-gave up the battle. In Moscow, 124 cannon boomed a salute to victory...
...likes best are the "osophone," an instrument designed to enable deaf people to hear through their teeth, and the "hypnobioscope," an electrical device for educating people while they sleep. During the war Gernsback has advanced a great variety of military ideas, all described in plausible detail, including a flying tank which would shed its wings when it landed, and radio-controlled vehicles which might be sent ahead of an army to explode land mines...