Word: tankful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of the battalion's anti-tank guns had not come up. Under the first shock, it had to retreat from hill to hill, toward the sea. The battalion commander, trying to pull his companies together at the height of the German attack, was wounded. His executive officer, a young captain, had to take over. Upon him, for a tense while, the fate of the U.S. invasion rested...
With 45 enlisted men and six other officers, the captain held a position called Hill 41.* Tanks repeatedly overran the hill. Every man fought for himself. The unit on the hill had only one anti-tank gun. Officers sometimes fired the gun. They manhandled it on a wall, firing first at tanks to the right, then at tanks to the left. A captain seized a bazooka (the army's famed anti-tank rocket weapon), knocked out a tank 25 yards away. A lieutenant colonel of paratroopers, who had stumbled on the battalion and stayed with it, knocked out another...
...mobile tank destroyer (a truck-mounted 75) arrived. The young captain in command of the battalion jumped into the destroyer, charged to the top of the hill, toward the tanks. His men did not expect him to return. He drove off the remaining tanks, and he came back. His battalion regrouped, advanced, eventually seized Niscemi. Softspoken, black-haired, tired, unconsciously heroic, the captain met Correspondent Belden. Belden said: "I hear you got some tanks yourself...
...Sicily. Unannounced in the first eleven days of the fighting were the positions and accomplishments of the 2nd Armored Division, commanded by 47-year-old Major General Hugh J. Gaffey, who had been General Patton's Chief of Staff in Tunisia, but an Italian communique said that heavy tank battles occurred in the 3rd Division's area...
Rudolf von Ribbentrop, 22-year-old, London-educated son of the German Foreign Minister, got the Knight's Insignia of the Iron Cross for service on the Russian front. He commands a tank company...