Miniature tanks models teach soldiers to distinguish between Allied and enemy tanks
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Miniature tanks models teach soldiers to distinguish between Allied and enemy tanks
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Title: Tom thumb tanks
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Subtitle: Accurately molded models train our destroyer crews to tell friends from enemy
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TANK DESTROYER units, pledged to “Seek, Strike,
Destroy,” learn to avoid belated or mistaken identi-
fication of enemy tanks at the Armored Force School,
Fort Knox, Ky. Here, the Tactics Department turns
out models of tanks on a miniature assembly line, for
teaching soldiers to distinguish between Allied and en-
emy tanks. These small-scale blitz wagons are placed
on an identification table bearing replicas of farm-
houses and other landscape features. Colored lights on
the diorama simulate the effects of sunlight from dawn
till dusk and even moonlight, sharpening the students’
ability to identify tanks around the clock. Built to a
scale of 1 to 32, the models can be studied for their
appearance at varying distances, by calculating the
theoretical range from which the students view them.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1944-03
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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87
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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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Lorenzo Chinellato
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 144, n. 3, 1944
