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...given 17 weeks of basic recruit training. Picked men get additional specialized, technical or officer training. Then they are shipped overseas in a casual company, put in a replacement depot for sorting over, finally sent to the manpower stockpile for eventual use as tankmen, artillerymen, infantrymen-whatever they have been tagged. Between induction call and combat may be only ten months...
...doughboys in their miserable foxholes, the tankmen warming up their machines, heard the apocalyptic thunder. They said: This is it. The star-shouldered planners, their work done, sat back to wait. They said: Let's hope this...
...Model himself also got a rousing welcome on that front: tankmen of the Third Army broke into a village, captured some of his staff officers, found Model's headquarters chair still warm...
...Army trod a route rich in U.S. battle memories 26 years after another historic offensive - through Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood, Soissons, Reims. His tanks were in Sedan on the 74th anniversary of Napoleon III's capture and surrender there. They were well into Belgium before many of his tankmen knew...
Rumanians Wheedle. In Bucharest, the people cheered dusty Red Army tankmen. Where the swastika had flown, placards shouted: "Long live Stalin...