Armored military tractor
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Title (Dublin Core)
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Armored military tractor
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Forward, the Tractor Brigade! The American guns will keep pace with the advancing infantry in any drive
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Caption: It takes more than fallen threes, rocks, and piles of brick and masonry to stop the progress of these tractors
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FOR days before the big drive the
artillery has been firing over the
heads of the infantry, which is “dug
in” along the edge of No Man’s Land,
keeping up a terrific bombardment of the
enemy lines. The hostile trenches have
been destroyed or made uninhabitable;
the hostile guns within range have been
silenced; and the road is cleared for the
drive.
Over the top go the fighters and begin
their rapid advance. The wire entangle-
ments have been leveled. The advancing
men, supported by their machine-guns,
kill or capture such of the enemy as have
survived the bombardment.
Hand-grenades and bayonets clean out
the trenches and shell-holes, and the
forward rush continues until the barrage
fire of the enemy’s artillery puts a
temporary stop to it.
Another zone must be cleared ahead of
the zone just occupied. The artillery
must keep pace with the advancing in-
fantry to avoid a delay that would enable
the enemy to bring up his reserves, place
his artillery, and perhaps undertake a
counter-attack. But heavy guns and
howitzers can not be moved as quickly
as infantry over ground cut by trenches,
deeply pitted by shell-craters, and ob-
structed by fallen trees and other debris.
Americans have profited by the lessons
of this war. There will be no delay in the
forward movement of our artillery when
we advance. The Government has planned
to equip the army with 40,000 armored
military tractors of two and one-half, five,
and ten tons capacity, capable of hauling
all but the heaviest pieces of field artillery
over the roughest ground at a rate of
from six to eight miles an hour.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1918-09
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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390
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Filippo Valle
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Alberto Bordignon (Supervisor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 93, n. 3, 1918
