Word: footed
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...After this barrage had cleared away ... four thirty-ton Russian tanks appeared from a timber clump and started advancing across the snowy waste to the foot of the hill. Crouched behind each tank were about twenty men, using it as a shield...
...Slowly the snow-clogged tanks advanced to the foot of the hill, with only three-fourths of the infantrymen left. A Finnish mortar or anti-tank shell burst twenty yards from the first tank and the Russian soldiers dropped to the ground. The tank seemed disabled, for it stopped. The three other tanks went on a few more yards to some granite boulders at the foot of the hill, then turned and plunged at full speed back to the woods for more...
...While the tanks were returning to the woods a Finnish advance machine-gun nest from high boulders on the east opened fire on the Russian troops at the foot of the hill. We could not see the result, but it must have been devastating, for the nest was almost behind...