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Show Nfcw Tank Destroyer M-18 I Is 'Hottest' in Action LIMA, OHIO. The army's new tank destroyer the M-18 is regarded re-garded by the army ordnance department de-partment officials here as "the hottest hot-test thing in today's armored warfare." war-fare." Capt. Charles R. Adkins, Columbus Colum-bus Grove, Ohio, an army automotive automo-tive expert of 16 years' experience, who saw the M-18 in operation in France, said the vehicle "is a streamlined speed demon that put a streak of lightning in our drive across France into Germany." The M-18, he said, has a mechanical mechan-ical system which permits complete installation of a new engine in less than two hours. Captain Adkins asserted that the tank destroyer's 10 bogey wheels operate op-erate independently, "thus one broken bro-ken wheel will not incapacitate the vehicle, which mounts a 76-mm. cannon." |