Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tank & Body Builders Union Philadelphia...
...just came back from a nine-day bivouac. That means living in the field for nine days and nights. When I got back, there was a letter here waiting for me from my wife. In it was a clipping . . . telling about you and the Tank and Body Builders Union and what great work you were doing towards the war effort. I am damn proud to say that I am a member of such a Union as that...
...Army General Markian Popov, the captor of Karachev. The Red Command regards this tall, thin, long-necked man with a schoolboy's face as one of the most daring of its young generals; it has jumped him two grades since April. A tank expert, he won his spurs fighting the Japanese in 1939. Some two years later his columns decimated the Italian Army in the Don loop, continued to race into the Ukraine until they bogged down in the mud and ran out of fuel. The Red Command forgave him. When the hour struck for the summer offensive, Popov...
...typical case was a tank sergeant who went berserk after the body of his commander, decapitated by a shell, fell in his lap. The sergeant shrieked, jumped out of the tank, ran wildly in circles with shells falling around him. His comrades got him back into the tank and to a first-aid station. After three days of treatment, the sergeant was able to rejoin his unit...
WITHOUT LAWFUL AUTHORITY - Manning Coles - Crime Club ($2). A prewar adventure in Nazi spy-chasing with Tommy Hambledon, hero of Drink to Yesterday, etc., sharing honors with a vengeful ex-Tank Corps officer and a debonair safecracker. Explosive action all the way, with a pitched battle in an English insane asylum to top it off. For spy-story enthusiasts, this...