half-track

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• He allowed his troops only two hours of rest and machine maintenance under the stars, while to the rear half-tracks and mechanics labored to extricate vehicles still stuck or disabled.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Get out of the half-track, now!

  Dragonfyre (2013)

• This from a half-track company that had outrun the commander? "But we're taking a shit rain of bullets?"

  Fiction book (1993)

• "During the war, I often traveled this road in convoys of tanks and half-tracks whose treads pulverized the pavement.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Camouflaged jeeps, half-tracks, tanks, personnel carriers, whole boxcars in dull green with black stenciling: TOP SECRET and PROPERTY: U.S. GOVERNMENT.

  Fiction book (1995)

• Four thousand hands are a lot of hands, and in an astounding short time, though Colonel Yoffe paced and bellowed through every minute of it, a half-track and then a heavy tank truck tested the road and got through.

  Fiction book (1993)

• The car careened in front of the bomber, leading the way, so the pilot slowed the plane a notch and moved in directly behind the machine gunner; they both headed for an Allied half-track stalled a few hundred feet away.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Half-tracks, troop carriers, tanks, and jeeps on flatbeds, each machine in camouflage colors or Army green with the white bars, stars, and lettering.

  Fiction book (1995)

• The soldiers used a half-track to navigate the rugged terrain during the mission.

• The half-track was essential for transporting troops across difficult landscapes.

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