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CONTROL SYSTEM - Das Pullen-und-Schoven Werke...
...yard hurdles: Weston Flint (H); Tom Smith (Y); Lloyd Pullen (Y). Time...
...order rang down the 68th's columns: "Turn 'em over!" Sergeant Pullen and his crew leaped into their tank. He ordered the driver out of his seat on the left side, took the controls himself. When a tank is buttoned up (i.e., the turret top and ports are closed) the driver's only vision is through two tiny (one-inch by four-inch) slits in the inch-thick armor. Peering through the main gun port, the tank commander in the turret actually guides the tank by varying foot signals to the driver (to start, a light kick...
...into a gentle rumble. The odor of warm oil, warm metal filled the crowded tank; then the steady, rhythmic, lulling scrunch of the gears. Behind the motorized infantry, the motorcyclists, the trim anti-tank guns, the 68th moved into line, went past The Old Man at 20 m.p.h. Sergeant Pullen drove like a virtuoso, keeping his tank dressed with the four others on his left, watching the field for holes or stumps which would give him and his men a bashing blow against the steel walls...
Suddenly the column stopped; the 68th, safely past The Old Man, had turned into a wood. "Dismount!" Sergeant Pullen and his men took a quick snack of sandwiches and apples, remounted, ran peacefully back to Company D's tank park. In column-of-three, the tanks edged precisely into place, each centred over a white stake. Major Kengla repaired to the orderly tent, saw that his men had hot coffee and a delayed lunch. He fidgeted. Everybody in Company D fidgeted. Sergeants made up excuses to drift into the orderly room, drifted out unsatisfied. Then the word came, first...