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Inspired by tales of women helping to defend Russia, Mrs. Edward Frederick Boultbee, the wife of an air-raid warden in the village of Attleborough, Norfolk, last week edged up to an "invading" tank in British Army maneuvers, popped a rock into the open turret...
...slight rise, and waved his right arm. There was dead quiet for perhaps ten seconds. Then M3 turned loose a horizontal stream of red death, directed towards a silhouette target 900 yards away. From the muzzles of four .30-caliber machine guns spurted bright tracer bullets; from the turret, the shells from a 37 mm. cannon cracked into the faraway pines. Ordnance men from far & wide saw what they had come mainly to see: the steady (22 to the minute) fire of the 75-mm. gun mounted on the starboard side of M3's hull...
...line, the cruiser Fiume (10,000 tons, 8-inchers).- At this exceedingly close range, Warspite, whose heavy batteries had been brought to readiness, spoke up with a broadside of 15-inchers. The whole broadside found its mark. The Fiume burst into flames from foremast funnel to sternpost. The after turret flopped right into the sea. Warspite let her have another broadside. Fiume was now afire and hopelessly crippled...
Splendidly ringed with red, white & blue stripes around the turret, The Old Man's tank roared past a regiment of truck-borne infantry; past 300 motorcyclists; past truck-towed, 37-mm. antitank guns (see cut); past the motor-drawn field artillery; finally veered toward the tank regiments. As he passed the 68th, The Old Man was a barely visible projection above the turret of his tank. His tank whirled, spat back to the reviewing stand. Company D relaxed...
...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...