Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recapture the important rail station of Korosten, the German Command reportedly boosted its forces in the sector by eight fresh tank divisions. Moscow claimed that during the last month in this and other battles west of Kiev the enemy had lost 800 tanks...
...picture itself is a good and interesting variation on a well-worn theme. An American tank loses its formation and, in subsequent wanderings across the Saharan wastes, picks up an English medical officer, a Fighting Frenchman, a Negro veteran of at least a dozen wars and insurrections, an Italian soldier, a German officer, and others too numerous to mention, including, eventually about a gross of assorted Nazi prisoners. The process obviously involves plenty of blood and thunder, and the picture works itself up to a well-planned climax, leaving everyone satisfied...
Result according to the British Ministry of Economic Warfare: although total German industrial production has fallen off at least 20% since last year, the output of such high-priority defensive weapons as fighter planes, tanks, land mines, antiaircraft and anti-tank guns has actually risen. Even Ruhr coal production has been largely maintained by doubling and tripling shifts, calling for volunteer workers. The locomotive shortage, one of Germany's worst problems, has been eased as German forces retreat and shorten the distances to the front...
...Midlands farmers were told that they must vacate their land for U.S. tank-training grounds. The natural reaction: they forgot that thousands of farmers had previously done the same for British, Canadian, even Polish troops. One softly cursed: "Aye, we went through the blitz . . . but the Americans take the land." >Sergeant -Michael Pihosh, American, was acquitted of the murder of an ATS private who had been partly undressed, beaten after a drunken dance. The case heightened the concern of many Britons for their women.† Pride & Poverty. These items were significant only as symptoms of a state of mind...
Against Fatigue. The slow Allied advance led one officer to grumble: "We will not get back in time to see our grandchildren." But morale is very good. Colonel Hamilton told the story of a little red-headed private, an Irishman, who crawled within 15 yards of a German tank, knocked it out with his bazooka...