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TO THE FORE WITH THE TANKS!
(August 20, 2018 10:56 am)
THE BATTLE OF AMIENS – PART TWO – THE BATTLE
(August 17, 2018 10:46 am)
THE BATTLE OF AMIENS – PART ONE – THE PLAN
(August 14, 2018 1:12 pm)
THE LESSONS OF HAMEL
(August 1, 2018 3:41 pm)
VICTORIA CROSS: RICHARD ANNESLEY WEST
(July 24, 2018 12:17 pm)
Training & Combat
THE FACE MASK & HELMET
This is a tank crew face mask, which would have been issued to every member of a tank’s crew to protect his face and particularly his eyes from the effects
SPONSONS
Sponsons were built separately from tanks, not necessarily by the company that built the actual tanks.
THE BOMBPROOF ROOF
This framework of wood and wire-netting (chicken wire the Americans call it) was devised as a means to prevent enemy stick grenades from lodging on the roof of the tank.
THE BATTLE OF CAMBRAI
At 6.20am, on 20th November 1917, a surprise attack by the British Army created a major break in the German lines to commence the Battle of Cambrai.
A7V: THE FIRST PANZER
The British Mk I tank was unleashed during the Battle of The Somme in September 1916 – but the Germans were much slower to develop an armoured fighting vehicle of their
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