The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1919-09-25
WHAT AMERICAAND
THE ALLIES DID
WONDERFUL STORY OF THINGS
ACCOMPLISHED.
Rangeof Guns Increased
Five American Planes Equal or Bet
ter Than Any in Europe.
U-Boat Campaign Offset.

did things bordering on miracles III
the war but did you know just what
some of those things are? Just what
economic and military miracles
we're accomplished? Do you keep a
scrap book? If so the following
brief outline of those things will be
we'll worth cutting out. For assured
". nothing you now have in it could
make more interesting reading.
The information was contained in
a circular gotten out by the Army
Recruiting Service, which is now get
ting out numerous interesting and
instructive articles showing what the
army offers as a career, what it has
accomplished and some of the things
it plans to accomplish.
Do You Know
That the American artillery IN
France than the British on the sign
ing of the armistice?
That the French at the battle OF
Souchez in four hours fired more
than seven times as many rounds OF
artillery ammunition as were expend-
ed by the Union Armies in the bat
ties of Chicamagua and Gettysburg?
That the American adtillery in
France fired more than four times as
many rounds of artillery ammunition
as the Union Army did in the Civil
War? ..
That America is the only country
that succeeded in building recuper-
ators from French designed guns, ex-
cept France herself?
That between April 6, 1917, and
November II, 1913, we made as
much smokeless powder as Great
Britain and France put together?
That we added nearly three miles
to the range of our 6-inch guns by
making streamlike shells for them?
That the war developed an optical
glass industry in the United States
which will make US Independent OF
Europe in this respect?
That the French invented the tank
and built the first ones?
That America produced two of the
three airplane fixed machine guns
used successfully against Germany?
That traver bullets indicated the
projectory by their light and not by
smoke?
That Livens gas projectors were
secret unknown to Germany until
the fighting ended?
That body armbr was worn during
the Civil War and was used in every
great war of modern times?
That America has developed 5 air
planes the equal or better than any
thing in Europe?
That American brought down 491
German planes during the war and
lost only 271?
That the Liberty engine drew
heavily upon the. German Mercedes
in it's design?
That the LeRhone engines built In
the United States were superior to
any of those famous engines turned
out at the rigial Gnome-LeRhone
factory in France?
That the United States in the war
period built almost as many aviation
engines of other types as she did Lib
erty engines?
That our gun cameras used in air
plane gunnery practice took pictures
directly upon print paper without
the Intervention of films or plates?
That America developed the first
successful airplane camera using
films?
That America clothed her aviators
in electrically heated suits?
That America reduced the cost of
heium gas from s1,700 per cubic
foot to ten cents?
That the first man who ever made
a parachute jump was the first in
spector during the war of all balloons
and parachutes?
That America shipped 533 locomo-
tives to- France on their wheels,
packed in baled hay, in the holds of
vessels?
That America and Great Britain To-
Gated more Germans by automatic
sound ranging machines than by any
other method?
That America developed search
light 10 per cent. stronger than any
other in existence and also produced
the first glassless searchlight with
metal reflector and no front glass?
That Austria and German in
1900 we're the two powers who ex-