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Show I the most powerful weapons hurled against the Nazis ! in France. , , . I Success of the M-1S is another demonstsration ot the weitrht of the '-Sunday punch" of American indus- : trv in this worldwide conflict. It is an admirable example ex-ample of flexibility in production, which permitted le-peated le-peated changes in specifications, design and nrepowei ! as it was being developed. The M-18 originally was intended to mount a 37-mm. cannon, but the expei-iences expei-iences of combat thrice changed this, as need for more powerful armament was recognized, and the iu-iss that went with Patton across France carried ib-mm. rifles. Buick long before had attained a volume output out-put that enabled plentiful equipment of both training and combat armored units. , , The M-18 is capable of knocking out enemy tanKs and pillboxes at ranges of several thousand yards, operating its cannon from a 36-degree revolving turret. tur-ret. The destroyer has proved to be extremely manu-verable, manu-verable, despite its' weight of 19 tons. It has a 55-mile-an-hour speed, much greater than any similar weapon of enemy production, and has proved its superiority su-periority repeatedly both in Europe and in the Pacific area. That the weapon was urgently needed is an accepted ac-cepted fact. German forces defensively had considerable consid-erable success with heavy caliber tank destroyers, but these were slow and unwieldy in the sort of race and dash into which the French campaign developed. The M-18s have the punch of heavy guns with the speed and elusiveness of light armor. They went around and through the Germans time and again in northern France and also were highly useful in southern France. Aside from Buick alone, , several hundred subcontractors, subcontrac-tors, including a majority of other General Motors manufacturing divisions, should be extended a tribute trib-ute for another speedy and effective job on wartime armament. 1 A "HELLCAT" ON THE GROUND Speed and power of forces under command of General Patton, as they smashed across France, perhaps per-haps were as astonishing to the enemy as they were demoralizing. The American successes have even surpassed sur-passed expectations of the people in general at home. They probably were not surprising at all to Army Ordnance and industrial engineers in this country who planned the armored weapons on which the attack at-tack was mounted. Just recently the Army has pulled back the curtain of secrecy surrounding one of these weapons, its M-18 gun-carrying tank ' destroyer, which was placed in production by the Buick division of General Motors more than a year ago. It is credited with being one of |