![]() ![]() Tanks are the most powerful military vehicles on earth and are designed to thunder across the battlefield. From that point on, the rest of the world was playing “Catch-up” and the race to make the best tank was on. The German panic didn’t last very long and little did anyone know at that time, that within the next 30 years, it would be the German’s who fielded some of the best tanks of World War II. What do you do, you can stay and die, or you can panic and run.and run they did. You attack it with every weapon you have, but it simply can’t be stopped. Then it starts spitting death from its cannon and machine guns. Then from off in the distance comes rumbling a giant machine, rolling over craters and ditches and crushing through the barbed wire obstacles that have stopped so many infantry attacks before. You’re probably a pretty battle-hardened soldier. Just imagine being a German soldier that day over 100 years ago: You think you’ve seen every terror war can offer - machine guns mowing down your comrades, barbed wire traps, artillery blasting whole platoons to oblivion, poison gas torturing your friends who were too slow to put on their gas masks. 15, 1916, near Flers in northern France, during the Battle of the Somme in World War I. ![]() The first tanks were British, and they went into action against the Germans on Sept.
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