Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...back to ASOTS! The "Amphibian" detail at the Harvard tank every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, are pooling their efforts with good results. They swim like fish now--mostly below water...
...annoyed their colleagues with pioneering studies in tactics and a rude espousal of modern forms of war. (Two examples: the late Billy Mitchell of the Air Corps; the late Adna Chaffee of the armored force.) Many cavalrymen, sensing the end of their service, went into the embryo tank service...
...Punch. The attack on all the hills went well. The enemy was human. On the second evening, just before dark, our men launched the final attack. All units moved-even the tanks, which punched along the road in the face of well-placed anti-tank guns. The attacks by the tanks and by three infantry combat teams were beautifully timed. The enemy was bewildered, shattered by deadly accurate artillery and demoralized by dwindling supplies, which our air attacks far behind his lines had diminished. The enemy pulled out, and our men walked into Nicosia...
Sailors on a trim, haze-grey U.S. destroyer cheered as two seamen pulled away the stencil to show off a new decoration on the side of a forward gun turret. It was the white silhouette of a medium "Tiger" German tank, official recognition that their ship had destroyed one of the enemy tanks which gave Major General Terry Allen's "Fighting First" Division a rough time during the initial hours at Gela...
Thus, Nelson made clear, reconversion is not something to be sprung on the U.S. overnight. It is now going on, and the invasion of Europe will accelerate it. To support invading armies, transportation facilities must be rebuilt and expanded. (Part of Baldwin Locomotive is shifting from tank manufacture to making special locomotives for the Government, for use in Europe.) To feed, clothe and shelter civilian populations, U.S. capital goods production must still be large. All this means that a big chunk of U.S. industry will probably be hard at peacetime production when the war ends, although production...