The Archive · 1941

Old Oil and Mosquitoes

To the Editor of the ing vehicles, trucks, cars and motorcycles.

Tt has been suggested in German military circles that the war has now reached such a high degree of technical perfection that it would be impossible, in the comparatively short period of the war itself. to train men for such specialized fighting units. but the British army has now many technical formations capable of taking on Germany at her own game.

The latest British tanks have given even greater speed to armoured divisions without diminishing their striking power, and many of the lessons learnt in this present war are represented in the most recent models.

A typical division with its moving armoured G. H. O., familiarly called "tin hearse" and including the latest American-made 70-mile per hour armoured trucks, has. in addition to its own artillery. scout cars medical corps, anti-tank. anti-aircraft and infantry units.—Reuter.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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