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Looking Up into the Fighting Turret of a Fort on
Wheels
ILLUSTRATED WORLD
lars and behind walls. In
a retreat, it can linger as
the "point" of the rear
guard and retard the
progress of an advancing
foe. If Napoleon had
possessed a bare half
dozen of these machines,
his retreat from Russia
could have been accomplished
with a loss of not
over one thousand men.
Even today, when means
of attacking such monsters
are tremendously
better, they still are vitally
important, as the British
troops have proved. Also,
just as these machines
are used in the rear
guard, they can be used
in advance guard formation.
The usual custom
has been for the soldier in hot fighting
to be nothing more or less than a free
target for the enemy's fire. In case he
Attached by straps to the rear end of came upon a detachment of the enemy,
each fort are a pickaxe, an axe, and a he was almost certain to be killed. The
spade-shovel, which, if the military tank or armed fort is to change this,
motor happens to get stuck in the mud, however.
can be used to dig it out.
There is also a lantern,
set inside of an armorplate
bucket that is riveted
to one of the steel
plates -at the back.
In the present war the
fort car has proved a
most valuable fighting
auxiliary, being utilized
to advantage in a great
variety of ways. Being
proof against anything
but artillery, it ventures
boldly into the zone of
rifle and machine gun
fire. Its occupants are
safe against "snipers,"
and it can run fearlessly
through the Streets of The Single Turret Type
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Villages in WniCn enemy a service bullet at one hundred yards, riveted on.