https://gazette.com/life/years-ago-a...cdec30b0e.html

?I know we can climb it. Given time, the tank could go to the top of the world.?Cpl. Howard Brewer wasn?t simply being macho. After a reconnaissance ride April 11, 1919, Brewer was sure his 14-ton Whippet tank could climb to the 14,115-foot summit of Pikes Peak. Another member of the team, Sgt. A.H. Worrell, told The Gazette that he had ?driven tanks over trees and trenches on the western front and I am betting we get to the top.?

The mountain-climbing mission came at the nexus of money and morale ? the U.S. Treasury Secretary was to announce a final ?Victory Liberty? loan drive, starting April 21, to get Americans to buy $4.5 billion of government bonds to close out the country?s final bills from World War I.