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Tank Activities A.E.F. 2/3

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BOF711505
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Tank Activities A.E.F. 2/3
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Shows soldiers of the 326th and 327th Tank Battalions at the A.E.F. (American Expeditionary Forces) Light Tank School at Bourg, France. Shows dummy training tanks made of plywood complete with turret armed with a Hotchkiss 8mm machine gun. The plywood training tank was mounted on a rocking device used to simulate movement over rough terrain while the trainee fired at a fixed target. CU of French Renault FT-17 Tank supplied to the newly formed A.E.F. Tank Corps by the French. Tank crews practice quickly climbing into tanks and quickly exiting tanks. A tank unit presents a minstrel show or minstrelsy in France in WWI.

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