What is "tanks"

Usage examples of "tanks".

The tanks were marked for delivery to the SS Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler Division on the southern flank of the Kursk bulge.

While the Fuhrer fiddled, stalling for another few thousand soldiers, for a few more Tiger tanks, the Reds had reshaped the earth inside the Kursk pocket.

In the three years of the Spanish Civil War, Luis became an ace, la Daga, destroying more than fifty Republican tanks in the battles for Madrid, Malaga, Bilbao, Segovia, and finally, his homeland, Catalonia.

In the two hours he spent bouncing on a bench in the back of the four-ton truck, Luis saw a thousand charred vehicles: tanks, self-propelled artillery, personnel carriers, supply trucks like the one he rode in now, ambulances there was no preference of army, both iron crosses and red stars alike blistered on their burned aprons.

A soldier flagged Luis down and pointed him into a position in the middle of five other tanks, all Mark IVs.

From his cupola, Luis eyed the sixteen tanks of his company, moving in the heart of the assault.

Tiger tank crews, the number of tanks to be involved, the mechanical problems popping up with the Panthers, everything Breit could gush to the Russians to help them beat the Nazis out of Germany like dust out of a rug.

In minutes, on the port side of the turret, he scrawled in large letters the name of his previous two tanks, General Platov, the great Cossack warrior from the bloody war with Napoleon.

Mark III and IV tanks, the motor also lacked the troubling tendency to blow up in combat.

And even when these tanks were knocked out by the hundreds, more kept coming.

He walked past the four tanks of his platoon, then down the line of the twelve T-34S in his company.

There were forty-five tanks in his battalion, all of them parked in four rows.

Tonight, the column of tanks roared across the little span without incident.

An officer walked along the line of tanks shouting orders up to the commanders.

Dimitri walked away from the settling fumes and heat of the tanks, a little ways into the surrounding field.