Comments on: Somewhere near Gironville, 5/5/1918 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/somewhere-near-gironville-551918/ Letters Home from a Yankee Doughboy 1916-1919 Sat, 18 May 2013 15:05:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: worldwar1letters http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/somewhere-near-gironville-551918/#comment-415 Wed, 06 May 2009 17:36:00 +0000 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/?p=4229#comment-415 The American forces did indeed have their own light tank which was quite different (and much smaller) than the large British battle tanks. Known as the M1917 6-ton tank, they were a variant of the French Char FT-17 design that featured steel tracked wheels and a rotating turret mounted with a 7.62mm Marlin or .30 caliber Browning machine gun. Armor was an Allied military innovation which terrified the German infantry and helped transition military strategy and tactics from trench to open warfare in 1918.

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]]> By: Kittybriton http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/somewhere-near-gironville-551918/#comment-414 Wed, 06 May 2009 15:41:33 +0000 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/?p=4229#comment-414 Not sure if you can tell me anything, but [did/do] the American forces have their own tanks? or [did/do] they have machines of the same kind as the British monsters?

I have a vague recollection that the German forces sometimes pressed captured British tanks into their service.

]]> By: worldwar1letters http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/somewhere-near-gironville-551918/#comment-407 Mon, 04 May 2009 17:12:23 +0000 http://worldwar1letters.wordpress.com/?p=4229#comment-407 Dear Readers:
Please refer to the page “Sam’s References Explained” for an entry on the Liberty Loan.

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