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The only ensualties in the Lorna Doone were two wounded. The ship

By

H. V. Morton

I

WANT to introduce you to a man in the Army whose part in mechanised ground warfare

is equivalent to that of a Spit- fire pilet in the air. He is the tank gunner.

Iis 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 Buccessful in action.

ARTICLE

In aid of Bomber Fund and B.W.O.F.

A tank emerges from a smoke screen with its gun sooking range.

Remember the

Tank Gunner

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 signailer can qualify as Army trades- men und receive an extra 18. 3d. a day, but the tank gunner is not allowed to do so.

Red Tape

The reason is, says the Treasury, that "there is no equivalent to a tank gunner in civil life."

The whole of this equipment in ac- tion is, at some time ar other, In the hands of the gunner. In the Air Force they put spot men in Spltares, and the tank guns must be manned by the same type."

Steel Prison

In order to see a 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 Const morass.

They told me that you could sit inside in perfect safety while a machine-gun was sprayed on you.

I climbed the armour plates and let myself down feet foremost through a steel.manhole. I found myself in an armoured strait-waist- coat. Although know there was not much room in a tank, I was

If you can discover a more idiotic and more wicked strip of red tape, I shall be sur- prised-High-Army-officers-surprised to discover how closely

und 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 testa 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 are left become gunners. It should be the other way round. "Wisile it is impossible to say who is the most important member of a innk'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-

at present,

time has now passed when tank inspired terror on the fleld -

likely to run away from longer tanks because too much thought has been given to thio, weak points of this vehicle."

The

LONDON, Apr. 8 (Router)ustained only superficial damage of battle. Modern armies are no

states the Admiralty communique. A spirited and successful netion

Locust's Success? was fought on Wednesday 'be- tween the British paddle mineBritish gunboat Locust shot down one LONDON, Apr. 3 (Router) -The sweeper Lorna Doone (Tempor enemy aircraft and badly damaged ary: Lieutenant TW, Sherrin, another. Her gunners also secured R.N.V.R.) and three Dornier during an attack on a Brillah convoy a hit on a third enemy alreraft, all, bombers

in the Thames estuary on Thursday

One enemy aircraft is belloved morning,

"And It is only by accurate gun nery that the tank can become a "Remember this: that one of the thing to be feared.

Chig modern tanks costs, ka much as

two-and-a-half or three Spitfires....

a modern tank is built round the crew. There was literally not an inch of spare room. We were in- prisoned in steel.

On the level of my feet, as I stood in the commander's turrel,

was the gunner's head. He sat gazing through the telescopic gw- sight, his hend pressed into a brow- pad, his left hand on the hydraulic turret control his right hand on the gun triggers.

Next to me, on a lower level, stood a man who popped a shell into a gleaming gun-breech, which Instantly closed; and the gun was ready to be fred.. He slipped a loaded belt into a machine-gun,

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'Advance!'

When gun turret and tonk were facing in the enme direction, I 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 semi-darkness. Hic look up a hond telephone. The fuumer and driver slipped on ear- phones-imagine three men almost side by side having to telephone to cach otherland then the man with the telephone shouted:

"Advance!"

Our steel prison was filled with n deepening roar, and the tank be- gin to move with a smooth, snaky motion, something between a small boat at sen 'and a fair-ground switchback.

Looking through the commander's plate-glass alit, I saw that we were advancing Intó a frozen pond.

The black Ice splintered at the rdges and air bubbles ran under the lea, which cracked with a noise I could not hear at we sonk into the pond and ploughed our way up on the other side..

"Fire!

We were how roaring along at perhaps fifteen or twenty miles an hour. The target was on a distant hillside. The gunner held it in his felescople Kun-sight by revolving the turret, and, no matter how the lank dipped and rose, dr swayed from side to side, his whole mind was bent on the task of keeping the runs en. Une target and, the target. in the hair-lino of his sights.

"Fire!" shouted the man with the telephone.

The gunner pressed the trigger, there was on ear-splitting crack, the shell case shot into a canvas bag, the tank Alled 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- ing 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 nosed up, moving inde- pendently of the body of the tank, and as we again came in view ut the target the gunner opened up with his machine-gun and a steady stream of bullets spattered, up all 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 prey.

Then-our-guns-crept-up-on-the- target, and we just had time to see a direct hit before we roared off and away,

While all this was going on what impressed me was the superb team work necessary between the mem- hers of the crew If a tank is to pre- serve itself in setion.

One slack or Incmclent member and that tank is in fearful peril with all the lives Inside it.

The tank is a partially blind, al- most totally dent, monster, im- pregnable, against seme 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 one upon the other with the crew of

bomber or a submarine...

As we drew to a standstill, three Jaughing young men in the jaunty black berets of the Royal Tonk Regiment climbed out and leaped to the ground.

"Rotten shooting. Jack,” said. the loader.

"Not

so bud," sald Jack. "I think we should have made R."

The driver strolled round and lit a cigarette.

"Did you hit anything?" he asked innocently.

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"No, but you did," they replied. suppose you had to take us through that pond' twice just to show what a biinin' 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 cyo and Judgment can condemn the crew to death or bring them brilliantly through to safety, should. be penalised by a strip of Whitehall tape.

How long must we walt in the middle of a war for this injustice to be righted?

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