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...Steel Corp. is head of a company that is relatively small in the steel industry but one of the biggest companies in the realm of alloy steel. As an expert in alloy steelmaking he is invaluable, for in the steel bottleneck the real choke is in alloy steels (for armor plate and many a vital part in war machines). The Government now wishes that it had taken his advice two years ago, when he foresaw the raw-material shortages now plaguing the U.S. Then he urged stocking up on nickel, chrome and tungsten, suggested substitution of molybdenum for tungsten alloys...
...Tanks, anti-tank guns, anti-aircraft guns and armored vehicles poured into Egypt from Britain and the U.S., until the Eighth Army had superiority in all branches of armor, except in one important branch-heavy-gunned tanks-and had great superiority...
...Army brought up its precious KV tanks-precious because they were Russia's best and because they were so few. Censors permitted the first description of them. The KV (for Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov) is a massive 46-tonner, with a 76-mm. main gun and thick armor which turns shells from enemy 75s and is often proof against fire from the Germans' famed 88s. The Russians say that it is almost fireproof, a decided improvement over German, British and U.S. tanks...
...tank has two weaknesses: 1) blind spots; 2) slow speed. It is General Bruce's problem to figure out how destroyers can capitalize on these weaknesses. The TD's own weakness is lack of armor. Its strength is speed. General Bruce is figuring out tactics by which a destroyer can get in its dirty work with the least risk. He stands on a hill to watch half his men charge over the ground in tanks while the other half bedevil them with tank destroyers and all known anti-tank tricks. As all this goes on, Bruce...
...stuff. Except for some new, secret destroyers which the General is trying out for the Army, it is all too slow. Their dream is a 65-m.p.h. gun with practically no heavy protection. If it is fast enough to outrun the tanks, they argue, it will not need the armor anyway. Conversely, slowing a destroyer down with the weight of armor only makes armor necessary. As one of the General's men says: "The idea is if Joe Louis is sitting in the corner with his back turned, you hit him behind the ear with brass knuckles...