The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-08-19
Allies Effectively Use Grenades
TO Halt Ndzi Armored Divisions

aged Russian artillery fire, but
largely 10 the Russian infantry
mar and his equipment.
REDS HAVE ROCKET GUNS
The Red Aarmy man has won
this victory partly by his own
personal courage, tempered by
two years of the worlds hardest
campaigning. But he lacked
neither craft nor weapons. He
lay and waited until the heavily
armored Tiger Mark VI had
passed, then turned and shot it
in its vulnerable back with his
long, slender anti-tsnk rifle or
with his rocket-gun, which is
very like our Bazooka.
With that Iew weapon, our
own infantry in Tunisia and Sic
lily have been almost equally
successful agains' smaller num-
bers OF Nazi tanks, ripping out
their sides al $50 TO 300 yards.
Also they have used anti-tank
grenadeS, fired from a funnel
like contrsptlon in a rifle-muz-
Zle.
These grenades only lately
have been mentioned in dis
patches, but, were tried out in
this country some time ago
against tank. crewed by chick
ems and a pig. The results were
Sanguinary that the grenades
were distributed TO our Army,
the British and the Russians. Al
about the same time we sent 10
Africa our first new tank de-
stroyers special cannon on
motor mounts which greatly
helped the British.
Recently there have been
other notable American contri-
buttons 10 the once-l o WI y
doughboy's defense against the
once-mighty tank. He has a new
type of miniature cannon, firing
armor piercing ammunition that
is deadlier against heavy and
medium tanks than the standard
81 millimeter. You should car
~ that popgun in a holster, a
German tanker prisoner said OF
the 81 but il is still good against
light tanks.
And today. from his own front
line. the doughboy fires the
powerful "infantillery-75 and
los millimeter guns, which
saved the First Division bridge
head at Celia from counterst-
lacking Nszi tanks.
In the contest of infantry and
armor, il is notable that British
tanks were stymied by Axis
mine fields al FL Alamein and
the Notifications OF the Mareth
Line-until British and New
Zealand infantry had attacked
and blazed a way for them.
NAILS CAUTIOUS NOW
So today the tank is just an
other we pom - and mostly a
weapon 10 be used with foot SOL
diers. After their awful lesson
OF recent weeks, the German
tanks in Russia now dare OPP
crate only with an escort Of their
own infantry, at few miles an
hour. They use their speed only
TO skedaddle when enemy infan-
try approaches.
II appears that tanks will be
used no longer as the spearhead,
the main reliance Of major at
tack. but either as an auxiliary.
accompanying attacking infan-
try-where they started in 1916
or as cavalry, on isolated,
dashing raids. They dare not
raid very deeply. either, lest
they be cut off and use up all
their gas trying to escape.
This change may we'll have eff
fects upon United Nations war
fare that will greatly influence
the outcome of the war. Today
We have an advantage, thanks
10 better anti-tank weapons.
and to infantry trained in their
use. But the enemy already has
captured samples of the wea-
pons and probably is beginning
production anG training troops
in their use.
However, probably until next
spring. we can count on having
the enemy tanks. number.