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...these do not speak for Britain. Heavy bombers, tanks, guns, warships, workmen hammering out weapons and munitions, A.T.S. girls manning lonely searchlight posts, paratroopers fluttering down in practice maneuvers, tankmen butting machines through timbered obstacles, sentries pacing windswept beaches -these speak for the Britain...
...Army General Nikolai Vatutin, captor of Sumy and co-captor of Kharkov. A massive man with a peasant's round face, he is one of the Red Army's veteran tankmen. In World War I he was a private. The Civil War gave him an opportunity to display his talents, saw him rise to the command of a cavalry division. Today his soldiers rate Vatutin as a "driving general," recall with awe last winter's campaign, when with fury and disdain for physical suffering he hurled his men into attack in the fiercest blizzards until the Nazi...
Recognition for 26 years of service came last weekend to Hal Ulen, Crimson swimming coach since 1929, from the College Swimming Coaches Association of America. Along with three other coaches who had molded tankmen for an equal number of years, Ulen was awarded a plaque...
...Freshmen. One day last November, three weeks after the Allied landing on the coast, a group of sweating U.S. tankmen halted their 750-mile dash from Oran, near the crest of a hill overlooking Tunis. The prize was twelve miles away. They had paused for orders from the officer commanding the shoestring force of British infantry behind them. As they waited, two German fighter planes swooped over the hills and strafed the British infantry, whose commander had belatedly decided to wait for air support. The support never came in time. Rushing German strength stopped the Allied dash...
From Kasserine Pass, Major General Lloyd Fredendall's weary young U.S. infantrymen, artillerymen and tankmen had fled across the valley. They had lost their swagger. They had abandoned their dead and their good equipment along the muddy, bloody roads. They had been handicapped by a lack of motor vehicles. Some of them fought blindly in small, isolated groups. For all of them it had been a humiliating retreat. On their heels came the triumphant troops of the Axis, driving westward and northward in three columns. Foul weather held most of the Allied air forces ground-bound. There appeared...