With the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt on April 12, 1945, Vice President Harry S. Truman assumed the Oval Office. He surely knew he faced a difficult set of challenges in the immediate future: overseeing the final defeats of Germany and Japan; managing the U.S. role in post-war international relations; supervising the American economy's transition from a war-time to a peace-time footing; and maintaining the unity of a fractious and powerful Democratic Party.
Tanks could be used to open a hole in enemy lines, but the burnt of the fighting must be done by infantry units. Early tanks for the allies had limited transverse movement for the turret, because their primary purpose was to serve as a gun platform for the infantry units coming behind them.
Charles Dickens was called “human hurricane” due to his
genius and great spirit.
His friends gave him the nickname “human hurricane” as they
all brushed aside their ordinary habits and occupations whenever he came to see
them. One of his friends, Mrs. Fields, stated that all these habits and occupations
were brushed aside until “human hurricane had swept by… The sense of genius
could not be more forcibly felt then in the hurrying flight of this great
spirit”.
