![]() ![]() ![]() The prototype was 35 feet long, and weighed over 40 tons. 31, 1918, in Bridgeport, according to the Quicksand Foundation, an online war-focused archive. The first official test of the Mark VIII was Oct. James Skinner (far left), presenting the Mark VIII tank prototype in Bridgeport Conn., Oct. “They ended up assigning him as the war department’s war board representative,” Sturges said. Within one year, Skinner was appointed captain of the corps, and positioned as Bridgeport’s fuel administrator, according to the Bridgeport Post article. Sturges said the city was a “war supply center,” and Skinner was put in charge of its armament and fuel industry, “overseeing the things they needed abroad were produced at a certain rate and sent overseas.” When the United States officially entered the war in 1917, Sturges said the Army was short of professionals to staff its Officers Reserve Corps, and Skinner was sent to Bridgeport. He received his bachelor’s degree from Yale in 1895, and completed a Master of Engineering degree at the University of Colorado in 1915, according to a 1959 Bridgeport Postarticle. Skinner was tapped for the job because of his credentials as an engineer. ![]()
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