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H. V. Morton
WANT to introduce,
I you to a man in the
Army whose part in mechanised ground warfare is equivalent to that of a Spit- fire pilot in the air. He is the tank gunner.
His job is one of the most. important in the mechanised Army. There are thousands of these young men in the Royal Armoured Corps, and thousands more are in train- ing. Their skill in a most dif- ficult branch of gunnery is paramount, if tanks are to be successful in action.
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A tank emerges from a smoke screen with its gun sooking range,
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Tank
Yet, owing to an unbelieva- ble attitude, not of the Army, but of the Treasury, the tank gunner is the worst paid mem- ber of a tank's crew.
Both driver and signaller can qualify as Army trades- men and receive an extra 1a. 3d. a day, but the lank gunner is not allowed to do so,
Red Tape
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The reason is, says the Treasury, that "there is equivalent to a tank gunner în “civil ̄NIC”
If you can discover a more idiotic and more wicked strip of red tape, I shall be sur- prised. High Army officers and gunnery experts, with whom I have discussed this question, agree that, if the War Office is unable to make the Treasury change its mind about this, Parliament ought to take up the matter without delay,
The qualified tank gunner must be given tradesman's pay like the other members of the
crew.
Not only should he be given extra pay, but he should also be allowed to wear a distinc- tive badge, so that everyone in the Army and in civil life can see that he has passed tests: which demand more in per- sonal skill, courage, and phy- sical stamina than any other branch of gunnery.
Real Grievance
This is a real grievance," said the Commandant in a tank gunnery school. "And until it is put right the Royal Armoured Corps will not get the best out of its gunners.
"At the present moment, when recruits come up it is always the drivers and the wireless operators who are chosen first. The men who It are left become gunners. should be the other way round.
"While it is impossible to say who is the most important member of a tank's crew, for each one is essential, it is definitely wrong to put one of them in the position of inferiority which the gunner occu- ples at present.
The time has now passed when the tank inspired terror on the field of battle. Modern armies are no longer likely to run away from tanks because too much thought has been given to the weak points of this vehicle.
"And it is only by accurate gun- nery that the tank can become a thing to be feared,
"Remember this: that one of the big modern. tanks costs as much as two-and-a-half or three Spitfires,
Gunner
The whole of this equipment in ac- tion is, at some time or other, in the hands of the gunner. In the Air Force they put spot men In Spithres, and the tank guns must be manned by the some type."
Steel Prison
In order to see n tank gunner in action, I asked to be allowed to travel in a tank when its guns were fired. The tank chosen for me was one of the big new cruiser tanks: a muddy monster that stood in a South Coast morass.
They told me that you could sit inside in perfect safety while a machine-gun was sprayed on you.
-elimbed-the-armour-plates-und. let myself down feet foremost through a steel manhole. I found myself in an armoured strait-waist- coat. Although I knew there was not much room in a tank. I was surprised to discover how closely a modern tank is bull round the crew. There was literally not an inch of spare room. We were im- prisoned in steci.
the level of my feet, as I slood in the commander's turret, Was
head. He sat the gunner's gazing through the telescople_gun- sight, his head pressed into a brow- pad, his left hand on the hydraulle turret control his right hand on the gun triggers.
Next to me, on a lower level, - stood a man who popped a sheli instantly closed; and the gun was into a gleaming guni-breech, which ready to be fired. He slipped a londed belt into a machine-gun.
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Advance!'
When gun turret and tank were facing in the same direction, 1 caught a glimpse of our friend, the driver, but at other times, when we swung round, he disappeared,
The loader shut the
turret lid and we were in seml-darkness. He took up a hand telephone. The gunner and driver slipped on car- phones-imagine bree men almost side by side having to telephone to cach
then the man other!-and with the telephone shouted:
"Advancel"
Our steel prison was filled with n deepening roar, and the tank be- gan to move with a smooth, shaky mellon, something between a small a fair-ground boat at sen and swilchback.
Looking through the commander's plate-gloss slit, I saw that we were advancing into a, frozen pond.
The black ice splintered at the edges and air bubbles ran under the ice, which cracked with a noise I could not hear as we sank into the pond and ploughed our way up on the other side.
"Fire!"
We were now roaring along at perhaps fifteen or twenty miles an hour. The target was on a distant hillside. The gunner hold it in his telescopic gun-sight by revolving the turret, and, no matter how the tante dipped and rose, or swayed from side to side, his whole mind was bent on the lack of keeping the Kunts on the target and the target. In the hair-line of his rights.
Fire!" shouted the man with the telephone,
The gunner pressed the trigger, there was an car-splitting crack,. the shell ease shot into a canvas bag, the tank Olled with a faint smell of cordite that was instantly blown out by fans, and far off on- the hillside the brown earth spat up in front of the target.
We were now running past the target. The gun turret kept swing- log round to the rear, and three times came the crack; and three shells plastered the target, dead on. The tank suddenly swerved, dip- ped its nose into a pit and, turning its own length, began to run back at full speed. I should think we were travelling at thirty miles an hour.
The guns nused up, moving inde- pendently of the body of the tank, and as we again came In view of the target the gunner opened up with his machine-gun und a steady stream of bullets spattered up wit round it.
We performed other evolutions. We roared full-speed into a dip of ground and lay hidden, like some prehistoric monster waiting for its picy.
Then our guits crept up on the targot, and we just had time to see a direct hit before we ronryd off und away.
While all this was going on what Impressed me was the superb team work necessary between the mem- bers of the crew it a tank is to pre- serve itself in action.
One slack or inefflelent member and that tank is in fearful peril with all the lives inside it.
The tank is a partially blind, al- mosi totally deaf, monster, i pregrable against some forms of attack, easily vulnerable to others.
Repartee
And as I saw these men at ac- tion stations I compared them, for courage and inter-dependence ope upon the other with the crew of a bomber, or a submarine.
As we drew to a standstill, three laughing young meh in the jaunty black berets of the Royal Tanit Regiment climbed out and leaped to the ground.
"Rotten shooting Jack," said the loader:
"Not
so bad." said Juck. we should have made it."
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The driver strolled round and it a cigarette.
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hit anything?" he "No, but you did, they replied.. "I suppose you had to take us through that pond twice just to show what a blinkin' awful driver you are."
How Long?
And as they stood chipping one another, I thought to myself: "Here we have the modern version of the Three Musketeers."
But what a monstrous injustice It is that the man behind the guns of that tank, the man whose eye and Judgment can condemn the crew to death or bring them brillantly he through
to safety, khuuld penalised by a strip of Whitehall tape.
How long must we wall in the middle of a war for this injustice to be righted?
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