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...Department, which has stoutly defended its tanks against all criticisms, last week unveiled the General Pershing (T-26)-the "answer," Under Secretary of War Patterson proclaimed, to the German Tiger...
Under the U.S. quake rumbling up from the south, the Government in Tokyo trembled like a seismograph's needle. For the fourth time in three weeks Premier General Kuniaki Koiso, who is dubbed "The Tiger" and has a catlike talent for landing on his political feet, again shuffled his feet and his Cabinet. He accepted the resignation of portly, aging (68) Admiral Seizo Kobayashi, lover of bridge, ex-governor of Formosa, onetime naval commander in chief, and president of the powerful Imperial Rule Assistance Political Society (Japan's totalitarian party). The Admiral did not sail into retirement...
From Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr., who had read that U.S. tanks were being unfavorably compared with the German heavies, especially the 72-ton Royal Tiger: "We've got the finest tanks in the world. We just love to see the German Royal Tiger come up on the field...
...troops in Europe got a bad shock when they came up against the giant German Royal Tiger tank. Mounting the German's high-velocity 88-mm. gun, it outshot, outweighed and sometimes even outmaneuvered Allied armored and mobile weapons...
...Russians are using their new Joseph Stalin supertank on an ever-increasing scale. This most powerfully gunned and armored vehicle in the world is more than a match for our best tank, the Royal Tiger...