Word: antitank
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London, aflame with nightly blazes but vigorously "adapting itself to the new peculiar conditions of existence or death," the factories in which "men and women toiled at the lathes . . . till they fell exhausted on the floor and had to be dragged away," the "vast intricate systems of fortifications . . . antitank obstacles, blockhouses," the secret rooms in which hidden scientists fought the "wizard war" of radar...
...Papa Edward Marvin Head, 26, passed around the cigars, strode proudly out to pitch for the first-place Brooklyn Dodgers. It was his first game in two years, and his arm was a bit sore (he was hurt by the recoil of an antitank gun last summer...
Onward Christian Soldiers. In Saskatchewan, a returned antitank battery explained why it was called the "Pious 65th": it boasted three Bishops, two Parsons, one Churchman and one Goodenough...
...incredibly beautiful mountain country toward Caporetto, we passed many small Yugoslav convoys moving north. They were travelling in groups of 50 or 60, some on foot, some in long, horse-drawn wagons. The Partisans looked at us with dull, tired eyes. One of these groups had four 37-mm. antitank guns-the only artillery I saw on the whole trip...
...thousands of Berliners, men and boys, ill-clothed, ill-weaponed, inept Volkssturmer, old & tired onetime soldiers, the fanatic Hitlerjugend, even hundreds of women, went to the fields and forests at the edges of the city. There they found trenches, pillboxes, antitank ditches. They also found begrimed, bone-tired soldiers and Luftwaffe officers scrambled in irregular detachments. And they found enormous numbers of antiaircraft guns with their wicked snouts now leveled, dug-in tanks with their deadly 88s, machine guns aligned, almost tripod to tripod, to sweep the highways. Perhaps...