Over the next few GOD KNOWS HOW LONG I'm going to be posting the UNGODLY amount of pictures I took on my vacation out to the New England area where we hit
Fort Independence
Dorchester Heights
The American Heritage Museum
The USS Constitution
Bunker Hill
Battleship Cove
and then because were still out traveling but on the way back
The Baseball Hall of Fame
I'm gonna start with the American Heritage Museum simply because I have the most pictures of that and it was hands down my favorite with the Constitution and Battleship Cove being close seconds.

The M1917 Light Tank was the first tank built in large quantities by the United States. A near identical license built copy of the French Renault FT tank with the primary difference being the bolts and other small standards being translated from Metric to Imperial measurements, this allowed for the tank to be built in large numbers without the need to retool factories that were already set for imperial sized parts. Being a copy of the French Renault the M1917 used a similar armament of a 37mm M1916 gun or Marlin Rockwell M1917 machine gun, the latter then replaced by the M1919 Browning machine gun, in a full 360 rotating turret, which in a time of tanks like the Mark V, St. Chamond, A7V, and Whippet was a revolutionary and advanced feature. The vehicle was also able to be driven and steered by a single person with an engine, transmission, and final drives in the back of the tank, again a revolutionary feature for tanks of the era, and were all originally design features of the French Renault. The M1917 would be produced and shipped over too late to see action by the American Expeditionary Forces in World War One, so the American Tankers would be stuck needing to use Renaults, but it would serve a vital role in developing and designing American Armored Doctrine during the Interwar Years before being retired by the US through out the 1930s.