Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story is a combination of a lot of old ones. Bogart, a tank commander, is separated from the rest of the army in good lost-patrol tradition. In trying to catch up with the retreating British forces, he picks up a motley assortment of stragglers: a few Englishmen, a Free Frenchman, a Sudanese rifleman (Rex Ingram) and his Italian prisoner (J. Carrol Naish), and a German pilot shot down by the tank's accurate fire...
...maybe not. What suspicious Reader Ingold saw was the end section of a pontoon used by LSTs (Landing Ship, Tank) to float the ramp when it cannot get up to a beach...
...Order of Lenin. The city of Perm was renamed Molotov; the town of Nolinsk. Molotovsk; the Red Hydropress plant in Taganrog the Molotov Plant. Alexander Lozovsky, then a trade-union bigwig, paid him a lush compliment: "Comrade Molotov combines Russian revolutionary ability with American efficiency." For helping to boost tank production, the Soviet Government a fortnight ago gave him its highest civilian honor: Hero of Socialist Labor...
Main fact about the projectile, which is fired from a .50-caliber machine gun, is that it can blow up an enemy aircraft's self-sealing gasoline tank. Earlier in the war the self-sealing tank was good insurance against old-style tracer bullets. By preventing leakage of fuel and formation of explosive vapor, the tank nullified the tracer. But the new bullet explodes in the pierced fuel tank, starts a chemical fire of intense heat and spreads a sheet of flame several feet in diameter...
...tank named Lulubelle is isolated during Rommel's African heyday. Under Humphrey Bogart's command, it staggers southward through sand and heat. Fuel and water run short. The crew picks up first a mixed batch of English and Empire men, later a Sudanese soldier (Rex Ingram) and his Italian prisoner (J. Carrol Naish), finally an arrogant young Nazi ace (Kurt Krueger). Half dead with thirst, this military mixed grill at last reaches an abandoned well, finds a choked dribble of water. There, as they die off one by one, the Allied men manage through a series of improbable...