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Show INHS AFTER HIS f TBI! WITH TANK CORPS ;l sergeant D. N. Wheeler of the U. S. ftank corps, formerly si reporter on pe Standard and which position he resigned to volunteer in the "treat 'cm .rough" branch of the service, has returned re-turned to Ogden and will again engage en-gage in newspaper work here In speaking of his experiences since he :leftthis city last summer; Mr. Wheeler ,'said: 1 "My greatest regret is that I did not Aee active service abroad. But still I ain certainly glad I did enter the tank "corps, which Is the highest branch of .'military service Every man who volunteered vol-unteered in that branch had but one purpose in view, namely ,lo serve his '"country with all his might. Many of Jtheni made the supreme sacrifice, for jho tanks corps was the most dangerous danger-ous kind of fighting. !l Given An Ovation. "It was continually impressed on the tank men that thelr's was the branch ' 'of service to which the war depart ' ' bent looked for greater sacrifices than 1 it asked of the other branches, and 1 '"that to maintain the high standard ex j I -peeled of it, each man must put away j I thoughts of self. Wherever the tank j i men went from the camp they were , acclaimed the finest men to b found ' In the army. Five hundred of us entered en-tered New York on a special train In I September for a week end, and the i people of that city went wild with en- ; ; jthuslasm over us. They provided ev- ery possible form of entertainment, : even to giving us a special show at ! ! the Century theuter. ; ' This special show was one of the I ; most wonderful benefit shows ever j produced in that city, according to the! press reports and comment. It certain-! iy was great We had the pick of the j tar talent then playing' on the eastern ! Stages, among them Caruso, AI Jolson. , lEd Wynne and many others. The show , started at 8 o'clock and continuncd un- j (til after midnight without an lntermis-; lilon, the show consisting of skits and ! 'parts of plays then holding the boards ' iln the east, chiefly on Broadway. And ! ffhen the show ended by a short speech I by Guy Erupey, who had joined the tank corps, there was still a large num-1 ,ber of famous actors who had not had j A chance to 'go on.' i l "The tank corps is a very Interesting Interest-ing branch of service," said Mr., Wheeler "It is not only unique for il the class of work It performs; It is; to because of the kind of training re- j .quired Perhaps it is safe to say that more than half of all the men in the ank corps rated in personnel on an wqual with the officers of other branches. They had to have men of that calibre to carry on the work "The tanks that made the signing: j of the armistice this year. But had) J the kaiser held out until next spring.! j as many thought he would, instead oft j showing his rabbit ancestry, the Am-; Am-; erican tank corps would have been ! prepared, in point of numbers and ef- llclency, to blanket a patch of double I Qistilled hell for the baby killers: from the Marne to Berlin. ; j "The big tanks were wonderful en -, gines of war. They were wonderful engines of destruction; but the llttlo , tanks were What kept the Huns on the) ' run and were responsible for the large ' death rate among them. But, in doing! this splended work, there was a death), I rate in the tank corps that is not all 1 j pleasant to look back upon, for the Germans tried every means of stop-I stop-I ping them " j. ' Mr. Wheeler said that he was twice I ready to sail overseas and was pre- I, vented each time. The first time he. ,Vas transferred for special duty to an -! f pother battalion, and the second time, i Ithc German collapse prevented his. j getting over. I "i Mr. Wheeler states that he is gladi j -.to be back among his 'old friends and i familiar surroundings. "Ogden cer- Jainly looks good to me," he said. j I "During most of the summer he was camped at Gettysburg. Pa., but was transferred to Camp Dlx, New Jersey, following the signing of the armistice, Tlroni which latter place ho was mustered mus-tered out of service. oo I |