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To: PGR88
Indeed he did.

Here's a photo of the Mark I

Worth reading the specs on this at wiki.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_heavy_tanks_of_World_War_I

7 posted on 09/15/2014 12:11:51 PM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

There are photos of captured Mark I tanks on which the Germans had painted iron crosses & sent them back against the British.

A WWI German officer named Erwin Rommel saw the value of the tank in attack & became Germany’s panzer pioneer.

Mark I’s were either `male’ & carried 75mm guns, or `female’ & carried machine guns. IMO the rolling machine gun nest would be the more deadly to opposing infantry.


10 posted on 09/15/2014 1:26:14 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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