AMERICAN TRIBUTE TO THE CENTURION TANK
TOKIO, Nov. 19 (Rec. 6 pm).— Britain’s eagerly awaited new monster tank, the 52-ton Centurioh, will be the heaviest used by the United Nations forces in Korea. “I believe it the best tank in Ihe world,” Major-General Hobart Gay, commander of the American First Cavalry Division, said today. “From all reports, it is bettor than the Josef Stalin heavy tank.” The British brigade which recently arrive) in Korea has the Eighth Hussars Regiment i'n support, which is equipped with Centurions.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 20 November 1950, Page 5
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