The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
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the sons and the grandsons of the men who wore the blue and the gray and are inow training to fight for one cause-de-
 tnocracy, and the terrific struggle of 5; years ago is thing that is long forge l. iten.
 1 When we glance at the statue of the
 grand and glorious Lee, mounted upon
 his favorite war horse, we are inspired
 with the spirit to hurry and get into this 1 old war and help do our part to make i this old world safe for democracy, and
 when we follow Old Glory on to victory under the leadership of President Will l son our commander -in-cflief, it will be 3
 pleasant thought for all of us to know that in the end, under his leadership all nations will get square deal and when he dictates our peace terms it will be an everlasting peace that no man or nation shall ever dare to break.
 l We have here in training some of the 1 finest young men of the country. They are not only experts along mechanical 1 lines, but are fighters and know nothing of fear, and are physically sound in ev- 1 cry way The war department has the , strictest kind of specifications for men | enlisted in the tank corps.
 l The severe physical tests which the men in Camp Colt must pass before they are regarded as fit for the heavy work of the tank service was shown two weeks ago, when eight passenger coaches load ed with men were sent from here to the ordnance training station at Camp Roy 1 tan, Metchen, N. J. All had been found physically unfit for service in the tank corps and were transferred to the ord- nance department. It was a very un- happy bunch that hurried out of town. 1 We have some men from Alabama who have become expert machine gun opera tors. They can almost play tune with
 the Browning and Lewis machine guns. l They have made some exceedingly good
 scores l. was exceptionally hard at first ] for them to shoot accurately moving along in the tanks. But they are begin- 1 ming to learn to use them like old 1 timers. We have about gotten used U the noise they make with the rapid-fre 1 guns. It was something dreadful at first.
 ! There has just arrived from England | a detachment of American engineer of- ficers with a new British battle tank, which is to be used for training Amer 1 iean tank corps for duty in France. This ltank will serve with other tanks in the I training of future crews for this method Iof warfare. There was recently com l pleted a tank constructed of three-quar- ter inch harveyized steel plates. II weighs 42 tons and is B feet long. Our largest tank, "The American" built at Boston, Mass, weighs 45 tons and it is propelled by steam.
 1 In the heavy tanks the men can stick | to their posts only few days, as the l deathly noise and the rumbling of the 1 powerful machinery would render them I deaf and almost run them crazy, so ali 1 American has invented an instrument l that fits over the ears so that the run- ming of the machinery and the burst 1 ing of large shells cannot be heard, but 1 the talking even to a whisper can be dis
 tinctly heard by all members of the l crew
 | The boys here have taken great interes. 1 in their work and we have here a fine personel of young officers to instruct us along with the officers who have been sent from abroad to give us special in struction in the tanks.
 ! The people north of the Mason Dixon 1 line have all been very kind to us and l their hospitality will never be forgotten They have shown us good time and
 have tried to make us enjoy ourselves in
 every way.
 /, Well, we don't want to be too friendly