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“The last war was a war to end war. This war’s to start ’em up again,” said a British Tommy,
Only six medium tanks had been built in 1939.
The last Regular Army cavalry regiment would slaughter its mounts to feed the starving garrison on Bataan in the Philippines, ending the cavalry era not with a bang but with a dinner bell.
Old Ironsides, the only American tank division to see desert combat in World War II, was the only one to get no desert training.
When the band launched into Sousa’s “Field Artillery March,” a haunting anthem of World War I, a mother marching with her son had shrieked, “Those bastards! They promised they’d never play that again!
“a ship’s a fool to fight a fort.
American tank crews had gone into combat with training ammunition rather than more explosive, more lethal armor-piercing rounds.
