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Whether it was or not, combat experience will have to prove. The T-26s arrived in Europe only last month, could scarcely have had a real workout. On the basis of specifications, the Germans' biggest Royal Tiger still holds a margin of power...
...would get tickets to the San Francisco World Security Conference. Turkey and Egypt stepped up to the ticket window,the former making no bones whatever about its motives for declaring war. Several South American countries, warned in advance by President Roosevelt, beat the deadline by a more dignified margin. Now all Latin America, except recalcitrant Argentina, was technically...
Captain Mike Keene, playing with an injured back, netted eight points in the first 11 minutes, giving the Crimson a 16 to 10 margin, before he was rested by Stahl. Without Keene, the quintet seemed to lose its dash and its collective shooting-eye, and Melville overhauled the Crimson, emerging with a half-time lead...
...Raiders set a fast pace in the second half, widening their lead to 36 to 24 before the Crimson got started. Forwards Clark and Gerry Johnson did all the scoring from that point on, and although they managed to narrow the Melville margin to four points at one stage, the Raiders more than made it up again, using their second team as the game closed...
...Allied attempt to flank the Westwall at Arnhem had failed. Germany's main eastern battlefront, along the Vistula River, was relatively quiet. Slowly, Eisenhower's margin of superiority in the west was worn down in frontal attacks against formidable defenses. V-E day was set back to 1944's end-then to May 1945. It was clear that the western Allies would need a lot more muscle to beat down their rugged, obdurate and resourceful...