I’m imagining ‘lead personally’ as the ‘drive me closer so I can hit them w my sword’ meme.
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Those numbers are crazy, when you remember the complete lack of formalised production lines in that period. Even in WW2 those numbers of tanks for an attack would have been impressive.
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a ww1 battle where the ground gained is in any way comparable to the lives lost? You learn something new every day
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I bet if you owned a car wash during this time, you would be a millionaire.
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The Mark IV climbs high like a very, very determined, 30-ton tortoise.
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Wonder what it felt like walking along with one of those early titans. Can’t imagine what the enemy felt when they saw the first one lumbering over the horizon!
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476 tanks? So more than twice as many as the British Army has in service today?
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The sheer number of tanks and the element of surprise caused panic among the German infantry and demonstrated for the first time the offensive potential of the new armored force. Targeted German counterattacks changed the situation in the following days.
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@someotamatonewithayoutubea9478
And now we have leopard 2s, M1 Abrams, T14s etc, all this in over a 100 years since the first world war
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The great shame is that after such a successful attack the infantry squandered in earlier battles were not able to exploit the gains and the huns were able to counter attack and regain much of the territory lost . The 57000 killed and wounded on the Somme would have probably made all the difference.
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To all Tankies wherever you are in the world, however old you are, from Scotland ex 4 RTR .....Fear Naught my brothers.
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The Tank Museum
20 November 1917- The Battle of Cambrai begins.
British Brigadier General Hugh Elles manages to create a force of 476 tanks which he leads personally into battle across the trenches. This is the largest force of tanks assembled until this point, and the attack takes the Germans completely off guard.
The British and their tanks advance 10,000 yards, and this success is so significant that it is still commemorated by the Royal Tank Regiment to this day.
To learn more about Cambrai and the Mark IV tanks the British used, click here: https://youtu.be/sF9-oQHN6_c
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