In company with an American officer he manned a tank and charged two
towns under heavy German fire. The tank scattered a German battery and
accumulated seventy prisoners. In peace time he is a college professor.]
These incidents and many others Captain Fallon relates in his book _The
Big Fight_ (W. J. Watt & Company). One of his most interesting chapters
is devoted to his experience in command of a tank. It was an amazing
adventure.
The Captain has fond memories of that good, old tank. “The dear girl
was named ‘Razzle Dazzle,’” he says.
“She was very young, having been in service only three months, but
rather portly. She weighed something over thirty tons. And in no way
could you call the dear little woman pretty. She was a pallid gray
and mud splashed when I got her and there was no grace in the bulging
curves of her steel shape; or of her conical top; or her ponderous
wheels.
“She showed every aspect of being a bad, scrappy, old dearie. The
minute I saw her in her lovely ugliness I knew she would like trouble
and lots of it. She carried a six hundred horsepower motor. And out of
her gray steel hoods protruded eight guns.