Word: weaponeers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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 tank with a bazooka, then was killed. Officers and men battled the waves of tanks with grenades, rifles, machine guns. In the desperation of that...
...real danger in the 1943 boomlet is that too many farmers might decide to take a flyer in land for speculation's sake and not for the land's produce. Against that psychology, if & when it arrives, the U.S. farmer's best weapon will be a long memory...
...Western and northern Europe are also objectives, and Winston Churchill has said that the Allies' mightiest invasion weapon is being shaped in Britain, the western base. A chip from that weapon fell on Sicily last week; the blade may fall anywhere from Norway to southern France...
...soon it was plain that they were depending more heavily on another weapon. The frantic enemy was firing torpedo spreads. I had turned away, momentarily blinded by gun glare, and was hanging on to the bridge shield when I saw the white track of a torpedo shooting straight for us. A signalman saw it too, and yelled, but it was too late to turn...
...cannot rely on military strength alone. We must mobilize the spirit of the whole nation. . . . We must transform the will of our people into a powerful weapon . . . a dynamic force...