Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1919 — War on Wheels [ARTICLE]

War on Wheels

Practically All Equipment Mounted

This has been a war on wheels, great guns have been transported on and fired from railroad cars and autotrucks. Troops have been fed from “rolling kitchens” and “rolling bakeries.” Automobile machine shops, to make repairs, have accompanied the aircraft sections. Observation balloons have been handled and controlled from motortrucks- Field blacksmith shops and carpenter shops have been on wheels. Many other things might be mentioned. But oddest of all perhaps wefe the field printing shops—such an affair being a motortruck with a little house mounted on its chassis, the latter containing a first-class printing press. On such presses a vast amount of printing was done — for a modem army needs a lot of it — including» that of the newspapers written and issued by our soldiers.