By Evelyn Waugh
Man Crouchback, made up our minds to get into the warfare, takes a fee within the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits excessive, he sees the entire trimmings yet not one of the motion. And his first crusade, an abortive affair at the West African beach, ends with an escapade that heavily blots his Halberdier copybook. Men at Arms is the 1st novel in Waugh's excellent Sword of Honor trilogy recording the tumultuous wartime adventures of man Crouchback ("the best paintings of fiction in English to emerge from global warfare II" -Atlantic Monthly), which additionally includes Officers and gents and Unconditional Surrender.
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The solution was to redesign the gun mounting to provide a limited amount of traverse for fine aiming. This was to be incorporated on the next version, the Char B1 ter, but this variant was only in prototype stage at the time of the Battle of France. The one-man turret was also a serious mistake, since it obliged the commander to take on the added distractions of loading and aiming the gun. Aside from these inherent design flaws, the tank was plagued with other mechanical issues. Of the 267 known cases of Char B1 bis lost in combat, more than half were abandoned or scuttled by their crews.
Work on a new light tank began at a research office in the AMX plant in response to an October 1937 effort to modernize the existing light tanks. The short-term outcome of this effort was the design of the AMX suspension for the R35 that resulted in the R40. AMX also took heed of an army study favoring the FCM 36 by beginning design of a new light tank that employed the new AMX suspension with a new welded hull design and diesel powerplant influenced by the FCM 36. A char léger futur began more formally under tank inspector Gén Keller’s program in December 1939.
These had a variety of improvements including a plate for the triangular towing sign and an extended left side tool bin; the armored domes for the crewmen were also standardized in this series and they were retrofitted to earlier vehicles. The third contract tranche of 220 vehicles made between July and October 1936 had lengthened mudguards. A final fourth tranche of 1,400 vehicles was ordered in 1936, which had the original twin Restor headlights replaced by a single Guicherd armored night-driving light.
