First battle where tanks were used10/17/2023 ![]() ![]() Unable to slow the advance of these strange mechanical monsters, the enemy had no choice but to retreat.Īlthough the results of the action at Flers-Courcelette was far from pivotal to the outcome of the war, commanders were overwhelmed by the results of the tank’s combat debut. 15, 1916, tanks rumbled into action there for the first time.Īlthough ponderously slow, clumsy and mechanically unreliable, a handful of Britain’s top secret armoured “land ships” still succeeded in rolling over the German barbed wire and fortifications as bullets bounced harmlessly off their inch-thick steel plating. Yet it was on terrain between these two little-known villages along the Somme in Northern France that a revolution in warfare occurred more than a century ago. THE TOWNS OF Flers and Courcelette may not figure as prominently in the pages of military history as say Gettysburg, Waterloo or Hastings. ![]() “Ponderously slow, clumsy and mechanically unreliable, a handful of these top secret armoured “land ships” still succeeded in rolling over the German barbed wire and fortifications.” The tank made its appearance on the battlefield in 1916 - warfare would never be the same. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply.AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |