(The picture below shows the Luxembourg Hotel in Paris, which opened in 1903)
Paris, 6th arrondissement, Luxembourg Hotel, the warm meeting room crackled with a roaring fire.
Colonel Johnson took a puff of his cigar and nervously glanced at his pocket watch. The hands pointed to ten, but no one was in sight. Was it going to be another fruitless wait?
Colonel Johnson was the head of the American Tank Research Laboratory.
Since the first tank appeared on the battlefield and achieved victory, the American military immediately took a keen interest in this weapon, which could reduce casualties. A Princeton University graduate, Colonel Johnson was tasked with setting up the Tank Research Laboratory.
The military hoped to develop its own tank, but after more than a month of effort, Colonel Johnson regrettably found that they could only produce tanks like the CLB75.
A tractor chassis with steel plates; this was all Colonel Johnson understood about tanks.
