DogDodger

I was privileged to attend the USMC Tiger Comp gunnery competition in 2002 at Ft. Knox with other members of the TankNet forum. The M1A1s were assembled out of sight behind a hill, and as we were waiting for the first one to appear, we heard a sound quite similar to a multi-blade helicopter. As we were scanning the sky, the first tank emerged from behind the hill to take up its position; the sound we heard was the sprocket engaging the tracks. The group even contained former Abrams crewmen who didn't recognize that the sound was coming from a tank.

I was privileged to attend the USMC Tiger Comp gunnery competition in 2002 at Ft. Knox with other members of the TankNet forum. The M1A1s were assembled out of sight behind a hill, and as we were waiting for the first one to appear, we heard a sound quite similar to a multi-blade helicopter. As we were scanning the sky, the first tank emerged from behind the hill to take up its position; the sound we heard was the sprocket engaging the tracks. The group even contained former Abrams crewmen who didn't recognize that the sound was coming from a tank.

I was privileged to attend the USMC Tiger Comp gunnery competition in 2002 at Ft. Knox with other members of the TankNet forum. The M1A1s were assembled out of sight behind a hill, and as we were waiting for the first one to appear, we heard a sound quite similar to a multi-blade helicopter. As we were scanning the sky, the first tank emerged from behind the hill to take up its position; the sound we heard was the sprocket engaging the tracks. The group even contained former Abrams crewmen who didn't recognize that the sound was coming from a tank.

I was privileged to attend the USMC Tiger Comp gunnery competition in 2002 at Ft. Knox with other members of the TankNet forum. The M1A1s were assembled out of sight behind a hill, and as we were waiting for the first one to appear, we heard a sound quite similar to a multi-blade helicopter. As we were scanning the sky, the first tank emerged from behind the hill to take up its position; the sound we heard was the sprocket engaging the tracks. The group even contained former Abrams crewmen who didn't recognize that the sound was coming from a tank.

Agree about the dearth of pre-1970 tank books if you're talking about technical or scholarly research, but there were some decent histories and memoirs you might consider tracking down, especially if Mildred Gillie's book interested you. For the British, Stern and Swinton for example have both written about their role in the tank's development. Martel wrote a memoir and a history of the first 15 years of mechanization in the British Army. Fuller was of course prolific (his Memoirs is very readable, and his acerbic wit comes through in several instances), and Liddell Hart's 2-volume history of the RTR was published in 1959. That's not getting into the combat memoirs, e.g., Frank Mitchell in WW1 or Guderian and Crisp in WW2.
Have some dead tree substitutes as well.

Agree about the dearth of pre-1970 tank books if you're talking about technical or scholarly research, but there were some decent histories and memoirs you might consider tracking down, especially if Mildred Gillie's book interested you. For the British, Stern and Swinton for example have both written about their role in the tank's development. Martel wrote a memoir and a history of the first 15 years of mechanization in the British Army. Fuller was of course prolific (his Memoirs is very readable, and his acerbic wit comes through in several instances), and Liddell Hart's 2-volume history of the RTR was published in 1959. That's not getting into the combat memoirs, e.g., Frank Mitchell in WW1 or Guderian and Crisp in WW2.
Have some dead tree substitutes as well.

Agree about the dearth of pre-1970 tank books if you're talking about technical or scholarly research, but there were some decent histories and memoirs you might consider tracking down, especially if Mildred Gillie's book interested you. For the British, Stern and Swinton for example have both written about their role in the tank's development. Martel wrote a memoir and a history of the first 15 years of mechanization in the British Army. Fuller was of course prolific (his Memoirs is very readable, and his acerbic wit comes through in several instances), and Liddell Hart's 2-volume history of the RTR was published in 1959. That's not getting into the combat memoirs, e.g., Frank Mitchell in WW1 or Guderian and Crisp in WW2.
Have some dead tree substitutes as well.

Agree about the dearth of pre-1970 tank books if you're talking about technical or scholarly research, but there were some decent histories and memoirs you might consider tracking down, especially if Mildred Gillie's book interested you. For the British, Stern and Swinton for example have both written about their role in the tank's development. Martel wrote a memoir and a history of the first 15 years of mechanization in the British Army. Fuller was of course prolific (his Memoirs is very readable, and his acerbic wit comes through in several instances), and Liddell Hart's 2-volume history of the RTR was published in 1959. That's not getting into the combat memoirs, e.g., Frank Mitchell in WW1 or Guderian and Crisp in WW2.
Have some dead tree substitutes as well.