HEAVY TANKS are reported to have played an important part in recent advances on the Western Front in France. This photograph shows one of the many varieties of British tanks at practice.
EYES OF THE ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN. —A predictor crew at work in a British trench behind the lines in France. This ingenious machine, electrically operated, is connected by a cable with the anti-aircraft gun. It traces the changing position of the enemy plane in the skies and predicts the point on which the gun should be laid.
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Waikato Independent, Volume XL, Issue 3665, 8 February 1940, Page 3
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88HEAVY TANKS are reported to have played an important part in recent advances on the Western Front in France. This photograph shows one of the many varieties of British tanks at practice. EYES OF THE ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUN.—A predictor crew at work in a British trench behind the lines in France. This ingenious machine, electrically operated, is connected by a cable with the anti-aircraft gun. It traces the changing position of the enemy plane in the skies and predicts the point on which the gun should be laid. Waikato Independent, Volume XL, Issue 3665, 8 February 1940, Page 3
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