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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 pilot in the air. He is the tank gunner.

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His job is one of the most important in the meclianised 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..

ARTICLE

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

A tank emerges from 'a smoke screen with its gun seeking 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 signaller can qualify as Army trades- men and receive an extra 1s. 3d. a day, but the tank gunner is not allowed to do so.

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

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 niso be allowed to wear a distinc- Live 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.

"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.

"While is impossible to soy who is the most important.member of n 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 pecu- pies at present.

"The time has now passed when the tank inspired terror on the fold 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.

The whole of this equipment in no- tion is, at some time or other, in the hands of the gunner. In the Air Force. they put spot men in Spitfires, 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 Ared. The tank chosen for me was one of the big new cruiser tanks: a muddy monster that stood South Coast.mornss.

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

I climbed the armour plates and let myself down feet foremost through a steel manhole. T

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

On the level of my feet, as I stood in the commander's turret, WAS the gunner's head. He sat Eazing through the telescople gun- sight, his head 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 tank were facing in the same direction, 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. He a hand telephone. The look

driver slipped on car- Bunner and phones--imagine three men almost side by side having to telephone to each other!-and then the man with the telephone shouted:

"Advance!"

up a

Our steel prison was filled with a deepening roar, and the tank be- gan 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 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 Afteen or twenty miles on hour. The target was on a distant hillside, The gunner held it in his teloscopic gun-sight by revolving the turret, and, no matter how the tank dipped and rose, or swayed from alde to side, his whole, mind Remember this: that one of the was bent on the task of keeping the big modern tanks costa as much as guns on the larget and the target. two-and-a-half or three Spitfires.in the hair-line of his sights.

"And it is only by accurate gun- nery that the tank can become a thing to be feared.

"Fire!" shouted the man with the telephone.

The gunner pressed the trigger, there was an car-splitting crack, the shell case shot into a canvas bag, the tank Alled with a falni smell of cordite that was instantly blown out by fans, and far off on the hillside the brown carth 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 wo were travelling at thirty miles an hour.

The guns nosed up, moving inde- pendently of the body of the tanks, and as we again came in view or 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- bers of the crew if a tank is to pre- serve itself in action.

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

The tank is a partially blind, ni- most totally deaf, monster, im- pregnable against some forms of attack, easily vulnerable to others.

Repartee

And as I saw these men at no- tion stations I compared them, for courage and Inter-dependence one upon the other with the crew of a bomber or a submarinė.

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

"Rotten shooting Jack," said the loader;

bad," said Jack. “I think we should have made it."

The driver strolled round and Ut a cigarette.

"Did

you hit anything?" he asked Innocently

"No, but you did," they replied.

"Not

"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 brilliantly

to

be safety, should

throwd-by a strip of Whitehall

tape.

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

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