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On the battlefield were around 400 light (13½-ton) U.S. tanks, each armed with a 37-mm. cannon and machine guns, some 50 U.S. mediums-30-tonners armed with a 75, a 37 and machine guns. Those were the equals, on paper, of the Germans' heavy (32-ton...
Whether the Chrysler-made U.S. mediums had yet seen action, Washington did not know. But American Car & Foundry Co.'s lights had seen plenty. Of both the lights and mediums, Washington knew one thing for certain. They had at least 50% more speed (light's top, 45 m.p.h...
Both observers and newsmen reported that the nimble lights could wheel and pirouette faster than the German tanks; that the thin side armor of German mediums was poor protection against the 37-mm. cannon of the U.S.-made tanks.
> Biggest Army item was a request for Ordnance: $3,719,882,246. What items this covered, George Marshall told the Committee in secret hearing. One big item leaked out: overwhelming tank production to beat Nazi Germany. Out of Ordnance's share would come 32,000 tanks (half lights, half...
Bloomington's gouache show was the idea of Illinois Wesleyan University's thin, goggle-eyed, 30-year-old Instructor Vincent Paul Quinn, who thought his students and art-loving Bloomingtonians ought to know about one of the most popular paint mediums in the U.S.