Word: tankfuls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...capture Tarn Ky, the capital of Quang Tin province, 40 miles southeast of Danang, the Viet Cong lost 210 men to withering fire from South Vietnamese troopers and the "Miniguns" of a U.S. C-47 gunship called "Spooky." Near the DMZ, a battalion of North Vietnamese regulars ambushed a tank-escorted Marine convoy on its way to the "Rockpile" strongpoint that overlooks infiltration routes from North Viet Nam. Two Marine companies barreled up the road 'from either direction, catching the North Vietnamese in between. Result: 92 enemy and five U.S. dead...
...exchanger. Sea water pumped through the exchanger is heated to 160° F., and then passed into a tower evaporator. About 10% of the heated water is vaporized, condensed into pure water on the sea-water-cooled coils of an adjacent condenser tower and stored in a fresh water tank...
...enemy arsenal consists of some 350 tanks, over 290 artillery pieces, ranging from 130-to 85 -mm. guns and 120-mm. mortars to rockets and self-propelled tank destroyers. Some 30 German panzer tanks, relics of World War II, are planted in fixed positions as antitank weapons, and the enemy has 200 antiaircraft guns...
Hand Signals. As the second and third Syrian positions were literally overrun in the same headlong fashion, Colonel Arie,*the column commander, was wounded. Major Rafi, who leaped into the turret of the lead tank to take his place, was killed instantly as the column blasted its way through the final...
...depleted force did not hesitate. It rumbled on toward Kallah, which was heavily defended by tanks and Russian SU-100 tank destroyers, machine guns, mortars and bazookas. The only access was through a zigzag of mined concrete traps, and the Israeli tanks, now commanded by Lieut. Naty, could only crawl a few yards forward before having to back up, wheel sideways and inch forward at a fresh angle. They provided tempting targets for the furiously firing Syrians. A shell caromed off Naty's tank turret, silencing his radio. He raced to another tank and jockeyed it into the spearhead...