The story of the great war . e awk-ward, creeping monsters, were greatly amused at theantics they displayed, and went into battle shaken withlaughter at the sight they made. The appearance of thetanks was a great mystery to the enemy because the secretof them had been closely guarded. It took a great deal ofadventurous daring on the part of the crews that mannedthem. Though they did effective work, many broke downfrom defective mechanism, though none were captured bythe Germans. An experiment in the flght for Courcelette,they proved of such decided value that the type was de-veloped and enlarg
The story of the great war . e awk-ward, creeping monsters, were greatly amused at theantics they displayed, and went into battle shaken withlaughter at the sight they made. The appearance of thetanks was a great mystery to the enemy because the secretof them had been closely guarded. It took a great deal ofadventurous daring on the part of the crews that mannedthem. Though they did effective work, many broke downfrom defective mechanism, though none were captured bythe Germans. An experiment in the flght for Courcelette,they proved of such decided value that the type was de-veloped and enlarged and the weapon became one of themost dependable in future attacks upon defenses deeplyand thickly protected with barbed-wire entanglements. Ina way the tank was the inventive answer of the English tothe Germans poison gas. And the English invention wasat the same time the more destructive and the more hu-mane. It not only killed and killed sharply, which war asa killing permits, but it destroyed defenses, of earth, steel,.
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