您可以想像当美军于1917年添加一次世界大战时，美军军队几乎没有配备坦克吗？当时坦克还算是一种新型武器，战事中只会偶一用之。1917年晚期，当美军决定要组成一只坦克兵团时，巴顿上尉自愿参加、创建此一全新兵力。巴顿自一流的盟军专家处学会了所有关于坦克的一切知识，包括设计、操作及修理方法，并且于1917年12月，在法国的甘勃来 (Cambrai) 观摩英军首次大规模的使用坦克。巴顿学得很快，没多久他就在法国的郎格 (Langres) 创建了第一所专门用来训练美军坦克人员的学校。


Can you imagine that the U.S. Army had almost no tanks when America entered World War I in 1917? The tank was then a new weapon that had only occasionally been used in battle. When the U.S. Army decided to form a Tank Corps in late 1917, Captain George S. Patton volunteered to help create this completely new force. Patton learned all he could about tank design, operation and repair from the leading Allied experts and observed the first large-scale use of tanks by British forces at Cambrai, France, in December 1917. A quick learner, Patton soon set out to establish the first training school for U.S. tank crews at Langres, France.

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