Citations:tank park

English citations of tank park

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• 1918, Reginald John Farrer, The Void of War: Letters from Three Fronts, Houghton Mifflin, p 17:

  And now, very many miles of shallow, flattening country lie between the Tank Park, and even the remotest, backward fringes of the war-zone.

• 1918, Charles Holme, The War Depicted by Distinguished British Artists, The Studio:

  [in a list of works] “Tank Park somewhere behind the Line”

• 1919, Blackwood's Magazine, v 205, W. Blackwood, p 588:

  Prospective tank-drivers tramped up early every morning to the Tank Park or “Tankodrome”—a couple of large fields in which workshops had been erected, some trenches dug, and a few shell-craters blown

• 1929, United States War Department, Training Regulations, Government Printing Office, p 4.

  [glossary] g. Tank park—A tank park is an area used by a tank organization to park its tanks.

• 1938, Paul Stanley Bond, Military Science and Tactics: A Text and Reference for the Reserve Officers, P.S. Bond Publishing Company, p 623.

  Regimental headquarters and headquarters company are usually at or near the tank park.

• 1940, Lowell M. Limpus, Twentieth Century Warfare: How Modern Battles are Won and Lost, E.P. Dutton & Company, p 164.

  They then proceed to the tank park, which is usually the headquarters of a tank regiment, which has been attached to corps headquarters.

• 1944, Arthur Miller, Situation Normal..., New York: Reynal & Hitchcock.

  88: I happened by his tank. It was standing in line in the tank park, at a time of the day when everybody is just waiting around for chores.

  93: All over the tank park faces turned up to watch.

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• 1939, Aleksandr Mikhailovich Schifrin (pseud. Max Werner), Edward Fitzgerald transl., The Military Strength of the Powers, London: Victor Gollancz, p 221.

  A considerable part of the French tank park consisted of old Renault tanks from the days of the World War modernised at a later date.

• 1956, Basil Liddell Hart ed., The Red Army: The Red Army, 1918 to 1945; The Soviet Army, 1946 to the Present, Harcourt Brace, pp 315–17.

  316: In quantity, the Soviet tank park was many times superior to that of the Germans.

  317: ...long time, despite the rapid increase in the Soviet tank park as a result of new production.

• 1965, Alan Clark, Barbarossa: The Russian-German Conflict, 1941-45, Harper Perennial (1985), →ISBN.

  35: Consequently the Russians gradually built up a “tank park” with machines eminently suitable for mobile armoured warface (in 1932) they had also bought from Britain the Vickers Six-Ton tank, from which they developed their own T 26 series), but they remained wedded to an offensive principle which rejected—if it ever considered—the radical notion of independent operations by a single arm.

  189: In the carnage of that first summer the Red Army had lost its entire tank park of nearly twenty thousand.

• 1989, John Keegan, The Second World War: An Illustrated History, Viking, p 177–78.

  Soviet industry was also producing useful military radio sets and a prototype radar; while the aircraft industry, with an annual output of 5000 machines, was busily accumulating a fleet which, like the tank park, would by 1941 be the largest in the world.

  The Soviet tank park numbered 24,000 and, if of mixed quality, could draw on an annual output of 2000, of which an increasing number were T-34s; by the end of 1941 tank production targets would stand at between 20,000 and 25,000, while Germany would never succeed in producing more than 18,[[[ tanks in any year.

• 2002, Joseph Page, Russian Tanks of World War II, Ian Allan, →ISBN, pp 9–10.

  The infant Soviet tank park was comprised of a modest number of British Mark V and Medium B Whippet and French Renault FT tanks.

• 2004, Steven Zaloga and Hugh Johnson (2004). T-54 and T-55 Main Battle Tanks 1944–2004, Osprey, →ISBN, p 11.

  As late as 1988, the T-54/-55 made up 36.5 percent of the Soviet tank park and the T-62 a further 25.7 percent; they were an even larger fraction of the other Warsaw Pact armies.

• 2006, John Mosier, Cross of Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German War Machine, 1918–1945, New York: Henry Holt and Company, →ISBN, pp 93–94.

  Moreover, despite the obvious technical inferiority of riveted armor for tanks, the Germans were not concerned enough about the defects to prevent them from deploying hundreds of the two Czech light tanks once they had occupied Czechoslovakia and had access to its unexpectedly large tank park.

• 2008, Victor J. Kamenir, The Bloody Triangle: The Defeat of Soviet Armor in the Ukraine, June 1941, Minneapolis: Zenith Press, p xi:

  This work will, hopefully, shed light how the Soviet tank park melted away under merciless German hammer blows in 1941.