Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heavy rains came down upon the eastern battleground. The mud clutched at cannon and tank, swathed marching men's feet with a heavy, sticky cast, and blackend the battles' dead. But, from Velikie Luki down, nine army groups, including perhaps 27 armies, early this week pushed and plunged at the German Dnieper line - at Kiev and Melitopol, Zaporozhe and Dnepropetrovsk, Gomel and Cherkasi...
Gruenther, were in effect professors of invasion, learned in amphibious assault, airborne operations, tank destruction, battle discipline...
...Navy told how the job was done, listed the various types of boats now in use, and incidentally revealed that two of the largest did not exist even as pilot models two years ago. Less than 20 months before the amphibious operations began, the giant LST vessels (Landing Ship, Tank) were nothing more than an idea. It was four months later than that before British studies revealed the need for an extra big troop landing boat; to meet the need the big LCI-L (Landing Craft, Infantry-Large) was developed...
...Higgins landing boat turns up in the list under two designations: LCV (Landing Craft, Vehicle), when it ferries, a light tank, or LCP (for Personnel) when 50 men ride it ashore...
...early as 1936 the Navy experimented with tank lighters, and from these tests emerged the LCM (Landing Craft, Mechanized)., a 50-footer which carries a crew of four and a medium tank. As an intermediate step between this small boat and the ocean-going LST, the Navy designed a 100-ft. LCT (Landing Craft, Tank), which can be carried to zones of operation on the deck of an LST or a cargo vessel...