Tag: first world war
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Saint-Chamond
Type: Heavy Tank Nation: France Period: World War 1 Location: Musée des Blindés, Saumur, France Armoured pioneer The Saint-Chamond was the second French tank ever to be fielded in May 1917. It was developed in parallel to the rival Schneider CA1, used the exact same Holt caterpillar tractor chassis and was also equipped with a…
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Mark V (Male)
Type: Heavy TankNation: United KingdomPeriod: World War 1Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK End of the line Concluding the evolutionary process that had started with the Mark I, the Mark V was the third and last major operational British heavy tank of World War 1. Around 400 Mark Vs were produced until the Armistice of…
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Mark II (Female)
Type: Heavy TankNation: United KingdomPeriod: World War 1Location: The Tank Museum, Bovington, UK Unfit for combat On 19 September 1916, only four days after the world had seen the first tank attack by a small amount of Mark Is, the British Commander-in-Chief in France Sir Douglas Haig placed an order for 1,000 more tanks. As…