Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-11

in a Jacket, making a chamber that Is
kept filled with water to keep the gun
barrel cool, otherwise it would soon
heat up and swell and the shell would
jam. These guns were dry. found
a shell hole with water in the bottom
and when rugged up my gun had
water for the jacket.
sReady for His Attack"
ct mounted my gun with its nuzzle
through port hole in the turret OF
the tank and found that I could turn
the turret. I was ready, anyhow, for
a try at them.
AT 4:30 o'clock saw flares go up all
along the German line, and knew they
were coming; and sure enough, In a
minute or two they did come.
1.-The closest edge of the moving
column was within so yards of me
when I cut loose. You know, baby
Maxim shells are on belt; you insert
it, press the trigger, the belt feeds in
automatically and the gun keeps shoot%
ing as long as you press the trigger.
IT kept my finger on the trigger ane
poured 1t into them at the rate OF So
shells a minute. fired about 5000
rounds, just sprayed lead on those men
marching in close formation, and then
jacket boiled dry.
81 decided to change barrels and in
doing it the water ran out of the
jacket.
Can Of Oil Saves Dav.
ct was in fix. BY this time they
were shooting at ME with rifles and
machine guns, bullets wery pattering
all around me. l couldn't stay in the
IN, NEry lxy oh &c,
try and sneak out and crawl of into
a shell hole. I slipped out and started
to crawl. One of the first things in my
way was gallon can Of cylinder oils
tipped it; it was full.
81 crawled back into the tank, drag
ging the can with me. I poured the
oil into the jacket, pressed the trigger,
and the thir-r-r-r-ring Of the gun was
music to my ears as poured another
barrage of bullets into the enemy line,
and that stopped it, The line broke
and what was left of it went back into
the woods"
At this point in his story Barley
paused.
How many did you kill?" I asked
him.
WELL" he drawled out slowly, "I
don't like to talk about that. had an
awful good target"
"All right" said to Barley. what
happened next?"
Field Gun Fires at Tank.
1.-THE enemy, of course, was badly
surprised. They couldn't tell how many
Of us were in that tank. They turned
machine guns on me. The bullets
rained on the tank in one steady spat-
tering. Then they sent out patrol Of
tAIIt II no
first patrol-none got back. They sent
out more patrols. One of my bullets
exploded whole bunch of grenades.s A
3-inch field piece opened up on me from
a clump of trees and shell frLm 1t
almost got me. located that German
gun by its flash and 1 swung a circle
of bullets around it and then cut an "X''
across it. That gun did not bark again.
my gun was getting hot again. AS
the oil in the jacket heated and boiled,
the thick black smoke almost choked
me. The Germans called for barrage
especially for my benefit. They opened
on me with 77-millimeter guns and the
shells began dropping around me. One
shell struck within so yards of me. The
next landed a little closer. I was peer
ing out of my turret portfolio when
there came binding Grassland I'M
consciousness.
Unconscious 80 Minutes.
81 woke tearing at the throat and
breast of my tunic. was smothering
My nose was bleeding. My wrist watch
showed me had been unconscious 80
minutes. 1t was lucky for me that
had been, for the Germans thought that
shell had put the tank out, and they
were launching second attack.
1.-THE stock of my machine gun was
broken off, but fed in a strip of shells
and pulled the trigger; she worked.
While I lay unconscious, the gun bar
rel had cooled. began grinding her.
Spraying bullets back and forth, and
that second attacking column melted
away as the first had done.
II didn't know then the Importance
of my little one-gun barrage, but the
official reports said afterward the break
ing up of the two attacks gave our 18th
Infantry time to prepare and launch
its attack against that part of the
German line, and to take hill 253, a
very important point.
Tank Is Blown Up.
"The 7th came sweeping up at dusk,
and crawled out of my tank to meet