A Gunnery Lesson on an Armored Car in France
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Underwood & Underwood
American, 1880–1931
A Gunnery Lesson on an Armored Car in France
ca. 1917
Letterpress print
Image: 7 x 6.7 cm
Overall: 8.2 x 14 cm
Gift of Donald K. Weber, 2009
Inscriptions verso (printed in black): No. 33-A GUNNERY LESSON ON AN ARMORED CAR IN FRANCE /
The body of this car is covered with bullet-/proof steel, and it is bullet-proof, too. Usually / two expert gunners, the driver and a spare / driver occupy these cars. The "job"of driv-/ing is no place for a nervous man, for he / simply sits still and listens to the racket of / the gun mounted on his own car and the / noise made by the bullets striking against / and bouncing off the armoplate of his ma-/chine. "Billy"Robinson, who had orders to / take an officer through Ypres, during its sec-/ond bombardment, relates the following inc-/ident: "A car, containing two officers, one a / major, preceded his car and had just passed / the railroad tracks on the outskirts of the / town. The machine ahead of us had just / crossed the tracks, when a big 15-inch shell / screamed over, burst just outside the car in / front. From where we were, it looked as if / its occupants must have been wiped off the / face of the earth....[extended text] / Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
The body of this car is covered with bullet-/proof steel, and it is bullet-proof, too. Usually / two expert gunners, the driver and a spare / driver occupy these cars. The "job"of driv-/ing is no place for a nervous man, for he / simply sits still and listens to the racket of / the gun mounted on his own car and the / noise made by the bullets striking against / and bouncing off the armoplate of his ma-/chine. "Billy"Robinson, who had orders to / take an officer through Ypres, during its sec-/ond bombardment, relates the following inc-/ident: "A car, containing two officers, one a / major, preceded his car and had just passed / the railroad tracks on the outskirts of the / town. The machine ahead of us had just / crossed the tracks, when a big 15-inch shell / screamed over, burst just outside the car in / front. From where we were, it looked as if / its occupants must have been wiped off the / face of the earth....[extended text] / Copyright by Underwood & Underwood.
