![]() ![]() The armistice was signed before he could embark.Įisenhower traveled with First Transcontinental Motor Convoy as a Tank Corps observer in 1919 after closing Camp Colt. ![]() He was temporarily promoted to lieutenant colonel in October and was told he would leave for France in November to command an armored unit. To his disappointment, he was sent to Camp Colt in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he was placed in command of the Tank Corps. In March he was told that the battalion would go to France and that he would be in command. There he joined the 65th Engineers and organized what would become the 301st Tank Battalion. (Eisenhower Presidential Library, ARC 876971)Īfter taking a course at the army’s first tank school at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, Eisenhower was ordered in November 1918 to report to Camp Meade, Maryland. Eisenhower (shown here standing in front of the tank) continued serving with the Tank Corps until 1922 when he left Camp Meade, Maryland (where this photograph was taken) to serve as executive officer for the 20th Infantry Brigade in the Panama Canal Zone. After the closure of Camp Colt in late 1918, Lieutenant Colonel Dwight D. He was so interested in the machine that his instructors had to find a mechanic to answer his questions. In November 1917, Patton visited a French light tank training session in the forest of Compiegne where he drove a Renault tank and fired its gun. Patton knew how to drive a tank by the time Captain Dwight D. “Did Eisenhower teach Patton how to drive a tank at Camp Colt in Gettysburg?” AnonymousĬaptain George S. This week’s Ask an Archivist query comes from Pennsylvania. ![]() He answers a question each week on Facebook. Today’s post comes from Christopher Abraham at the Eisenhower Presidential Library.
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