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"ACTION!"—And the crews race to their tanks.
TOT far from the Royal Armoured Corps
Regiment, big tanks
extinct saurians came pounding along the lane. I gingerly edged the car into the side of the lane and stopped; but the tanks, with the obstinate obtuseness of large animals, decided to stop too, so that we remained wedged wheel. to track.
As I waited, the turret lid of the first tank opened and a face ap- peared- mild face wearing sper- tacles.
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It was a surprising upparition from such a manhole. One might have expected a savage face, a tough face, but not a face like that. It was as if one had opened the Wooden Horse of Troy to find a curate Inside it.
The face was followed by another, but different type of face; a face made in Yorkshire, if I am anny Judge of faces; and by yet a third face of the kind I have seen all my fe in smoking carriages at Lon- don Bridge,
The owners of these faces heaved themselves up, and slithered down the, armour plate to the ground, where they became involved in a technical discussion with a pair of extremely bright eyes seen through
steel-slit-in the monster's belly:
A Mixed Bag
Falling into conversation with them, I learned that eight weeks previously they had all been civi- }ints. .'
Mild Face had, been an accoun- tant; Yorkshire Face had been a railway booking-clerk nehr Leeds; and Ordinary Face had been solicitor.
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asked what Bright Eyes had been, and they said he had been a bookmaker's clerk.
reflected that, although they had been in the Army for only eight weeks, it had already la'd its unmistakable band on them.
to a criticni Perhaps
sergeant- they might still have seem- major ed depressingly civilian, but to thelr friends I am sure they
own must have appeared vastly differ- cht from the men who left home eight weeks ago.
It was, I thought, typical of modern war that Mild Face should have been the gunner. That quick accountant's brain could be trusted to pump out two-pounder shells annual with the necuracy of un audit.
It was also typical of modern war that a man whose greatest previous violence may have been the chasing of tropical fish round a home aquarium should, in the twinkling of an eye, find himself In command of greater des
destructive power than any commanded by Arthur and all his knights.
Perhaps
ops the end of the
the world will come some .day when a like Mild Face pulls over a lever and blows up the planet.
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With this depressing reflection, I said good-bye to them and went on to the Royal Armoured Corps training centre to which they, and many others like them, belonged,
In Tank Town
I suppose most people know that the Army to-day consists of the Field Army, which is a trained Army, formed into divisions and corps, and a great number of vast training contres where hundreds and thousands of recruits are put through a sausage machine and into soldiers as quickly as Having completed their cot
course, the men leave the training centres. and join the Field Army; and, as they march out at one chd full of wisdom, the long queue from civli life continues to enter at the oor
Among the most interesting of these gigantic schools are the train Init comter of the Royal Armoured
The Men In The TANKS
by H. V. Morton
Corps, where men like those I had met in the lane are taken from a thousand civilian occupations and taught how to drive tanks, how-to look after them, how to become $0 tank gunners, signallers, and
forth.
The Royal Armoured Corps is the name now given to all tank units of the Army. These are the Royal Tank Regiment (which used to be the Tank Corps) and the
cavalry
and yeomanry; mechanised
When I passed the gates I found myself in a town of tanks.
Whole ranges of workshops were them. In immense devoted stables these sinister brutes were being groomed by young men in black berets.
Everywhere I looked I saw them gliding along with their guns smoothly lifting or falling.
How They Train
The roads shook to the advance of the big tanks; the cruisers sailed along with the dignity of warships, whippet while now and then would suggest by its agility that under the hand of an old troop ser- geant' it
might take a five-barred
Fate in derly room they showed
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me the syllabus of training; and I was suitably impressed. The brain power of the nation must have in- ereused cnormously in recent years if men can really take in all they are supposed to take in during the process of becoming soldiers.
The Commandant, an ex-cavalry The officer, spoke to me about tanks, tank crews, and tank tactics as if the there was nothing else in Army.
-He 'ked his tanks in plg, power- ful masses. That's the way to use tanks. Don't be afrald of them! The steel walls of England!
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He was very inspiring.
Then he spoke of his recruits as they were the cream of the earth; and I thought how astonished they would be, could they hear him, be- cause he was not the kind of man, judged, who went round kissing! them good-night or placing bou-
in the huts. quets
"The men coming into the Royal Armoured Corps to-day are a won- derful crowd," he said, "and we're have there and to train
proud
ihem.
"Although they've got vorled backgrounds, they are all alike in one thing: they long to smash the enemy; and we in the Royal Arm- oured Corps know is much about smashing tactics as anybody."
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I was told how men arrive straight from civil life and
Day- given in intelligence and chology test to decide whether they are best fitted to be gunners - or drivers,
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The old Army, with its rifles, machine-guns, Mills grenades, "en- trenching tools, barbed wire and perpetual fat feet, was child's play this terrifying compared with plunge into mechanics.
Yet, oddly enough, the men of
ducks to-day take to this as water.
to
Having na mechanical sym- pathies whatsoever, I looked at them in reverence and admiration. To love a tank is surely the apex of all mechanical passion.
But when I entered the gunnery
"1" school, came into a fascinating world. The art of hitting some- thing two-pounder gun from a lank in motion is a fine art; and the way men are taught to do this
picturesque and ingenious.
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with
In the first shed I saw a row of skeleton gun-turrets controlled by electricity, so that they revolve and oscillate and do all the things that gun turrets de rough country:
The gunners, sitting in there mechanical bronchos, had to align their sights on a landscape target and keep them there by controll
turret and ing the dircellon of
guns.
In an adjacent shed the saine enried a step further. idea, was Here was a splendid sand table, the size of a large room. It con- tained model houses, villages, trees, und
which small model roads, niang tanks and cars were in movement.
Facing
ing the model landscape.
were more skeleton turrets and Kuns, Ench gun had fitted to it
a .22 rifle so devised that to fire it at the target was equivalent to the firing of a two-pounder gun in real country.
On The Target
I was asked if I would like to try a shot,, and, after a brief strug- gle with the manhole, I sank into the stegi skeleton like a sardine into its un.
Gazing through the sights, I anw the landscape 'come' suddenly to life, Miraculously, the little ted houses were real houses, the sand hills were rent, the roads were real --and most realistic of all was the slow, rhythmle swaying of the turret itself, which began as soon over the as the instructor fluu lever.
My first shots went wide, but it was interesting to see through the periscope how the sand spat up where the bullet had hit it, just as if a shell had bust there.
AL last I had, the target
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plea
red house well on the hair- line, and I pressed the trigger, to see with astonishment the little building rise into the air and fall on its side.
At that proud moment I decided
I won to give up tank gunnery, dered afterwards whether the ser- geant had been a bit gentle with the control lever!
Having decided this, they all have a six-weeks' course in general military training, followed by a
Nearly all the men I spoke to at two-monthe course of gunnery, for those selected as gunners, and in this deput were either ex-school
"selected
teachers or railwaymen. I was driving, for -those-
select told that an unusually high propar- drivers,
tion hnd turned up in a recent Then the drivers do
a. two- weeks' course. In gunnery, and the "Intake" or call-up.
"And
we like them," said an In- gunners do a two-works' course in
"They're keen and driving. At the end of these six- .. teen weeks they go out to their units.
"Accountants and solicitors make good gunners," 1. was told.
In Quick Motion Walking round the depot, I had confusing impression of men committed to a. life of bewildering' technfènlity, t
or months' time they
will go out into the Army to con- tinue to learn, and to put into prac tee the training of sixteen gruell- Ing weeks. TRA
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