"The great steel tank, of the heavy British model, weighing about 30 tons and armed with powerful guns, is evidently not operating on teh battlefield but it giving a demonstration, near some American city, as realistic as any on the fields of war. After America entered the war she began building tanks for the expected 1919 campaign, and had finished 799 of the French model, light Renault tanks, by Mar. 31,1919. At the same time, 1.500 of the British type machines had been about half finished. Though none of these tanks arrived in Europe for action a large number of American officers and sodliers were trained in France for the Tank Corps, which consisted on Nov. 11, 1918, of about 10,000 men. These troops were supplied with machines by the British and French. Only one battalion of American manned heavy tanks took part in battle. This was the 301st Heavy Tank Battalion, under Maj. R.I. Sasse, which was attached to the 27th Division. The battalion had 40 tanks in action when with this division of New York National Guard troops it attacked the Hindenburg Line between Cambrai and St. Quentin on Sept. 29, 1918. Seventy-five per cent of these tanks were knocked out or seriously injured, but they went clear through the German defenses. Two battalions of American manned Renault tanks, together with a still larger number operated by French crews, performed heroic service with the 1st American army, both in the St. Mihiel Salient and in the battle of the Meuse-Argonne. They were the 344th and 345th Battalions of the 1st American Tank Brigade, commanded by Col. G.S. Patton and, after he was wounded, by Maj. Sereno E. Brett. At the beginning they numbered 144 tanks and made a particularly brilliant record."--Taken from back of resource