Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trap. A German Mark-VI and four Mark-IV tanks suddenly appeared on the road. Atop a bare ridge, Sergeant Stanton Dobbins and his men got set with rifle grenades (see p. 68). When the tanks were 60 yards away Dobbins cried: "Let 'em have it." The first volley set one tank afire, knocked the treads off another. Other tanks came up, concentrated their fire on the slopes where the Americans lay. Some of the soldiers fled. Three more tanks were hit; the rest turned away...
...town far to the rear. The enemy had evidently watched the regiment's advance the night before, had skillfully moved in behind it. Parts of an armored division and a motorized division, outnumbering the Americans, had sheared through the extended U.S. column, isolated the regiment's tank destroyers, most of its artillery and its reserves of food, water, gasoline, ammunition. The regiment's officers now remembered the old man at the crossroads trying to tell them something about the Germans...
Lieut. Colonel Edwin Stephenson and three enlisted men saw a German tank running down a road and knocking down U.S. infantrymen like bowling pins. Another tank headed for Colonel Stephenson, Corporals Perry Baker and Alvin Copeland and Private Eli Franklin. The Colonel said: "Boys, let's stay...
...they said. They and the Colonel crawled into a ditch by the road, fired when the tank was ten feet away. The tank began smoking and the German crew, screaming with pain, started to climb from the turret. Colonel Stephenson said: "My men cut them down one by one with rifles as they climbed...
Somewhere in Italy Privates Albert Campbell and William McGovern were in a position that had been infiltrated by German tank formations. Their platoon was cut off. Mortar fire was falling near by and Nazi machine guns opened up. They waded the Sele River, hid out for a night and a day, then started cautiously in the direction of U.S. artillery fire. After that they...