Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...related types which the Russians call Stormoviks and the Germans "Black Death." Slow, cumbersome, low-ceilinged, the Stormovik is heavily armored. Its primary job is tank and fort-busting, which it accomplishes with eight rocket bombs under each wing, two heavy cannon, four machine guns...
...time Blitzkrieg in reverse, with the Red Army's performance as spectacular as anything the Wehrmacht has yet shown. Thus, Zhitomir fell to a cavalry corps of three divisions under Lieut. General Victor Baranov (who, for the feat, received the coveted Order of Suvorov, First Class) and a tank army under Lieut. General Pavel Rybalko, who won fame in last winter's campaign. So fast were these generals moving (120 miles in nine days) that happy Moscow gave their chief, General Nikolai Vatutin, a fond nickname: Molnya -Lightning...
Reassured, the Wehrmacht pulled some troops out of Kiev, rushed them south to help hold Krivoi Rog. Only then did peasant-faced, tank-wise Vatutin (by now, for unannounced reasons, in full command) give the order to attack. His veteran troopers stood on the heights before Kiev and wept with anger and sorrow at the sight of flames eating through the city. Then, with fury in their hearts, they swept down upon...
...Tank spearheads drove through the city, and continued in pursuit. Behind them came the bulk of Vatutin's army, estimated at 300,000. German garrisons of some 150,000 men withdrew before the trap was sprung. In Moscow, the Red Army's newspaper Red Star said proudly: "History has not known such a swift operation...
Tony and his M-7 tank-destroyer crew hit the beach at Salerno with the American forces, and days later helped take Sorrento, knocking out three German tanks. Tony found his aging Aunt Theresa, but not his uncle. The Germans had killed him. Aunt Theresa cooked spaghetti for Tony, his crew and a U.S. correspondent. They agreed that nowhere but in Italy could such spaghetti be found. Aunt Theresa smiled and showed them the box it came in. The label read: Colucci's Famous Spaghetti. Manufactured in Brooklyn, U.S.A...