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Originally Posted by MAGNA
Here you go TRDG. George S. Patton in France - World War One, where he established the first American tank training centre at Langres in North eastern France (early 1918). I think it was the 304th Tank brigade. The volunteers were so raw Patton had to get up in the middle of the night to personally drive the first shipment of tanks off the flatcars at the railhead - he was the only man in the whole brigade who could actually drive one.
The first action, though not significant, came in the Mihiel salient. Pattons appetite was whetted. His last action in the war came in September where his tanks became seperated from the main infantry attack and ended up assaulting a German position with some infantry in support. Five tanks broke in but the infantry wasn't keen on following them. Patton and five or so volunteers charged in. Patton was wounded in the thigh by shrapnel, thus ending his war but not his passion for action and the belief that tanks had a key role in the future ("missing half my bottom but otherwise all right").
The tanks used were French Renaults as the picture of George S. shows.
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COOL, thanks, that was PERFECT for me, and others I bet to!!!
Cheers, did he have any personal comments about the Renault, his likes. dislikes by chance?
Tom