Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days it was touch & go. The Germans tried to drive the Eighth's amphibious column back into the sea. Their tanks crunched into Termoli, came within 200 yards of the railway station, where British headquarters and a field hospital were pitched. The show was at its stickiest when suddenly British tank reinforcements appeared, broke the German assault...
...Germany's war machine in Norway has had to travel by sea since Sweden recently withdrew tank-car rights on her railroads. To interrupt the oil traffic, and to lure any nearby German naval units into a fight, the mighty British Home Fleet (battleships, cruisers, destroyers) last week sailed 800 miles into Arctic waters. The Home Fleet also made naval history: it served as an escort for an American aircraft carrier...
Sahara (Columbia) is a preposterous melodrama about Humphrey Bogart, nine other heroes and a derelict tank; it is also a triumphant combination of first-rate entertainment, intelligent cinematics, and an unusual amount of honesty about war. It mixes these ingredients in a much-used shaker, according to the old Lost Patrol formula...
...tank suddenly wheeled and fired. In the blinding explosion Alexander Austin and two of his friends came to the end of the road of death. When the smoke and dust had cleared, only Basil Gingell was alive...
...discovered that blonds, brunets and redheads differ in susceptibility to burns. They suggest that fighting men be encouraged to get suntanned as a burn protection. The new cream has also been demonstrated at the Army's Armored Command Research Medical Laboratory with a view to its use by tank crews, who, like sailors, are liable to powder and fuel flash burns...