Hutaf’s poster, commonly misdated 1917 in museum and library catalogs, was not printed until late September 1918. Patton, right), the Tank Corps’ first battle occurred at St. Though it was organized in November 1917 (assigning as its first officer George S. (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC) Patton, Jr., in command of the First Tank Center in France, 1918. The first words one reads–“TREAT ‘EM ROUGH!”–are set apart by black-outlined white lettering in the upper left corner. Below and behind the cat is the firepower the new Tank Corps would bring to World War I. Behind the cat a sky glows in fiery orange and yellow. A fierce black cat virtually attacks the viewer. August Hutaf’s recruitment poster for the US Tank Corps quickly attracts the modern eye.
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