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...considered a ranting radical, he used to tell his fellow officers: "Mobility is needed to carry the war home, to reach the decision, to conquer. Mobility means live men arriving and establishing themselves in possession of the military objectives. To live and move quickly against the gun requires protection. Armor gives protection in movement. The gasoline engine moves armor. And so we come to what is called mechanization." He also said: ". . . The tank is not a new weapon; the Roman legionnaire with his shield, the armored elephants of Hannibal . . . were in reality tanks using the best motive power then available...
...weapon except perhaps against another tank. If you want to go in for passive defense, ring the point to be defended with anti-tank guns, sure. But you'll never win a-war that way." He further believes that U.S. tanks are the best in over-all design, armor and guns, thinks the Germans have the edge only in numbers...
...present tank production is coming from American Car & Foundry Co.'s light ( 13-ton) tank plant at Berwick, Pa. This week, with its rate up to 200 a month, A.C.F. delivers its 1,000th tank. Almost ready for production is an improved, 18-ton model with more armor, more punch. A.C.F. last week received a $12,500,000 Army order-presumably for these new light tanks...
Lessons & Lacks. Pitted against the commanding fire power of the Armored Division, the infantry outfits had shown determination, resourcefulness and coolness in fighting off the tanks. But their anti-tank equipment was scant and what they had lacked mobility. They needed what the Allied Army had lacked in France last spring, what Germany's Panzer outfits have never yet met: self-propelled artillery that can get in the way of tanks, knock them out. Fully aware of the need, the Army is already deep in the design of such a piece, probably to be mounted on the chassis...
Last February Admiral Towers told Congress that "very few" of his planes then had modern armor, self-sealing tanks, etc. By 1941 standards, most of them were underarmed. But the Navy is now getting quantity delivery of fine, fully armed fighters for its carriers...