If you want a glimpse of what it was like to crew a WW1 tank, do the following: 1. Wait for the hottest day in summer 2. Turn your car on 3. Lift dumbbells with your face in front of the exhaust pipe while listening to intensely loud recordings of industrial equipment 4. Vomit 5. Repeat until deaf, sick, or dead.

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The first reactions to seeing tanks would've been what Benny says when he sees the Courier in his casino

And I quote “ WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT THING?!?”

The remake of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT nailed that fear.

I have heard two, not mutually exclusive, theories on why large, armored vehicles are called tanks. The first is that the British called them tanks as in water tanks on official paperwork and communication when sending them to France in order to fool any German who intercepted one of the messages. The second is that British soldier took one look at the Mark 1 vehicles and said that they looked like gigantic water tanks. I would not be surprised if both are true.

I'd imagine taking out a tank in 1917 was about as hard as getting The Front's Narrator to finish a sentence without 16 dramatic pauses.

It must have been terrifying to have seen your fellow soldiers die in unimaginable ways for years, then a steel beast roars across no man’s land

I read an excerpt of a German runner. Saying there was a “giant crocodile” coming. That must have been terrifying, to think a natural monster was coming to eat you.

The First major Tank on Tank engagement was on April 24 1918, when 3 German A7V, an armoured box on tracks armed with a capture Russian 57mm, met 3 British Mark IVs, 2 'Female' (machine gun armed), one 'Male'(Artillery armed), the first 2 of which were badly damaged, but the latter, manned by a half gassed crew, knocked out one German tank and routed the other 2, while the damaged one was righted and brought to the Imperial war museum.

It must've indeed been terrifying to see such a machine approaching especially initially when there was no counter weapons to damage them. Both sides sure learned and adapted quickly though.

creeping barrages were an alright strategy. On one hand it probably wasn't pleasant being bombarded for hours at a time, but German trenches had dugouts that were deep enough to protect anyone in them from artillery, and when the bombardment stopped the Germans would know what was going on, walk up to the machine guns, and shatter the allied defence

No one would envy the job of Tank Driver or any other Tank related job in WWI.

Both French WW1 Tanks, The Schneider and St Chamond were principally held back in their inability to cross Trenches of really only 5-6 foot wide, hence the Brit Tank known as the Tadpole with the lower, longer tail section having greater ability to cross wider Trenches

Ironically if they actually worked on a vehicle for supply instead of a tank it probably would have had a huge effect. The biggest problem armies in WW1 had was following up a breakthrough before the enemy could plug the gap Ludendorff himself said that the defeat of 1918 was really French trucks beating German horse carts

I just realized today that the narrator is the same person as the channel for geetslys, no wonder why I've always enjoyed the narration of videos made by "the front"

These Beasts show no mercy!

Me, an intellectual, a man of both science fiction as well as a history teacher, who watches history videos to show in my classroom and Star Wars videos in my spare time, just sitting here wondering whether I accidentally clicked Geetsly’s page instead

I wish i learned more about WW1 growing up, I know next to nothing about it in comparison to what I know about WW2, except for how it began

Just started playing The Great War: Western Front a few days ago. They really nailed the rhythm of impact from new technologies and adaptation curve.

My youngest son is a tanker. My 17yrs old daughter loves war films. She said the tanks going over the trenches in the film All quiet on the western front old and new films. She said it's the best scene of all time.

I think trough out war, there were often quiete terrible first times. The first Gas attack, they probably had no gas masks. The first fighter jet, outrunned any plane. The first Machine gun. We can only imagine what its like, to fight against something, that no one else ever did.

The shock of seeing something unusual and large in the distance must've felt something like seeing the war elephants for the first time during the Punic Wars.

For those wondering about the other countries using tanks in the Great War, here's a quick summary. France built 3 kinds of tanks. The first 2 were shit. The Schneider CA1 was some king of armored small truck with tracks, had a cannon on the front right side instead of the front, and 2 machineguns on the sides, but his low armor made it very vulnerable to the fullmetal jacket bullets the germans were using, and the short tracks under the tank made it unreliable on the uneven terrain. The Saint-Chammond was a big monster with a 75mm cannon on front, but the tracks were even worse and the thing was too heavy on the front and always stuck itself into the first crater or trenche it tried to cross. The last one, the Renault FT, was a light tank and the first one with a turret, and was considered the best tank of WW1. With new tracks going further than the front of the tank, some kind of spade behind to keep it from falling on its back when it crossed trenches and the revolutionary at the time 360° turret, those small tanks destroyed the german trenches with either a machinegun or a 37mm cannon. Germany made mainly 1 tank, the A7V, but they could only make 20 of them. Those big tanks were heavier than the Mark V, and had a main cannon in front and 6 machineguns around, and were quite fast on flat terrain, but otherwise they were quite bad. The tracks didn't permit them to cross trenches, and Germany had low quality steel left for their tanks because all of the good stuff was for their ships. They tried to build 2 giants 150t tanks at the end of the war, the K Wagen, but war ended before they could launch those leviathans on the battlefield. The USA joined kinda late the arms race and only managed to build a small tank at the end of the war, the Ford M1918, a 3 ton tank with no turret and a machinegun. It was quite fast and all terrain, but because it could only shoot in front of it, the Americans prefered to buy/borrow some of the new Renault FT; They still made in an international cooperation with the french and the british the new and last version of the Mark tank, the Mark VIII International (or "Liberty"), some kind of stupidly long Mark tank able of crossing the biggest trenches the Germans made. Also the Russian tried to build a giant tricycle with cannons, it ended stuck in the mud, it was called the Tsar tank or Lebedenko tank, and the worse part is this is not a joke, there's pictures of it. The Italians made a big tank ... just after the end of the war, and they sent the Fiat 2000 in Libya for peacekeeping (spoiler : it failed). Finally, before the war even began, one Austrian engineer named Burstyn proposed a patent for what could have been the first tank in history, the Burstyn Motorgeschutz, a small tank with steel bars with wheels in front and behind supposed to help the tank to cross trenches or barbed wire, but the nobility didn't want to replace their glorious cavalry with feathered helmets by some kind of crude machinery so they didn't let him even register his patent.

Fantastic vid. Nothing much more to say, Just straight forward, informative, and engaging.

"A desolate wasteland Infernal depiction of hell The birth of a new way September 15, 1916 The first wave approaches At Flers-Courcelette Through fire and brimstone Breaking away, coming your way Standing in the line of fire 32 will lead the way Coming over trench and wire Going through the endless gray Standing in the line of fire Moving on and through the fray Coming over trench and wire Live to fight another day"

Funny thing, all three triple alliance powers were working on some type of armored vehicle around the same time period. If you count the Tsar tank. Actually, Austro Hungarian technician Gunther Adolf Burstyn had already created a design of a tank that is much more advanced then what we saw the British and French made when coming up their designs. This was a few years prior to The Great War, in 1911. Of course, they were rejected by both the Austro-Hungarian empire as well as the German one.

Your video on the chaco war is amazing!

It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage video about that horrible experience of tank crews and soldiers .thank you🙏 (the front)channel

top notch. subbed.

Soldiers had never seen tanks at that point. They were completely unequipped to deal with them, no idea how to destroy them, they were almost invisible on a battlefield full of infantry armed with nothing but rifles, grenades and machine guns which couldn’t pierce their thick armor. They were impervious to bullets and the grenades were not strong enough to damage them. Really the only thing that could damage them was artillery which was extremely inaccurate and generally fire from a distance. They must have seemed like an indestructible machine of terror; I can only imagine how horrifying it must have been for the soldiers that faced them

My grandfather saw his first tank on Easter Monday April 9 1917 on the first day of the Battle Of Arras. He had just manged to escape the advancing British forces, 7th Batallion Seaforth Highlander of the 9th Highland Division and 13th Batallion Royal Scots of the 51st Highland division, who advanced north and south of the Scarpe. He had been wounded in the neck during the reatreat and his regiment, Grenadierregiment 10, which had been in the line during the weeklong bombardment, the Semaine de Suffrance, had been badly shot up, whith most of the forward elements, including his platoon, gone. He was now behind the huge railway embankment, protected from direct artillery fire. In his own words, from his memoirs (my translation): ===Begin excerpt The rolling barage pounds ceaselessly onto the position and the area behind us. Athies and Fampoux are being raked with the heavy stuff. The barrage stands like a wall of smoke and dirt betwen us and our reserves. Some officer shouts at us: "They have tanks both on left and right!" Damn! That is all we need... and no artillery at our disposal. I climb up on the embankment. I have to se these infernal chariots myself - even if I am without asignment and out of a job. On the right a a ruddy-brown monster churns slowly and ponderously on the road between St. Laurent and Gavrelle... and stopsmand fires... with a lot of smoke. I pick up a gun and start firing... God, that is just futile. =====End except The tank he saw was probably the tank that was commanded by Lieutenant Tarbert, D company, Heavy Section Machine Gun Corps, supporting 51st Division. It was disabled by a German sniper during the day. There was a bit of an impression but by and large it may have ben greater during the Battle of the Somme, when tanks were first deployed. Those early deployments did illustrate the weaknesses of the tank and reduced the later impact, as the attack on Bullecourt on April 11 showed.

To truly understand how horrific they would have been, most Europeans fighting, especially those from outside the cities, had literally had not seen a car ever, or had any idea they existed

Tanks were not the most effective in terms of combat effectiveness, for the ones that actually made it to combat without breaking down, but the fear caused by them sent ranks of Germans running for fighting fruitlessly to try and stop them. The fear did subside as new weapons were created to counter them, AT rifles, armor piercing ammunition, cannons, etc. But the damage was done and the war was now firmly in the Entente's hands. Fear only works so much until those in fear get used to them. The shock faded, new countermeasures came about, and the fear of tanks ceased to exist. But it did happen, and showed just the kind of weapon tanks are.

You'd think they would use canons and other explosive weapons when they realize bullets wont work on these metal beast.

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This taught me more about wwi than literally anything and anyone (including my teachers)

“How terrifying were WW3 Gundam mobile suits truly?”

Imagine fighting a man, now imagine you then see a rhinoceros charging up. And you dont know what that is. It's just angry you're alive and it sees you.

I’d highly recommend the BBC series Our World War for a great glimpse at what crewing a tank at Cambria might have been like. Warning, the end is a tear-jerker

I feel like it's the same reaction from the movie "the last samurai" when they see the gattling gun while they are charging to the enemy forces

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Standing in the line of fire!

If anyone is interested in a fantastic first-hand account of these early days of tank warfare, I highly recommend, With the Tanks 1916-1918, memoirs of a British Tank Commander in the Great War by W.H.L Watson

How do you think it was like? Big metal box, rolling over trenches, your Gewehr 98 can’t do shit, you don’t have grenades, it has a little ass gun which is cutting down soldiers, then it has a big ass gun which turns your surplus battalion into a surminus rapscallion.

Your method of storytelling with visualization really feels like you’re bringing me back to the time. Definitely one of my favorite war history channels out there keep up the good work mate from America.

WW1 Soldiers seeing tanks: What in the goddamn?

is that Eckhardts ladder?

Technically, the British were not being deceptive about calling armour water tanks. They did carry some water... along with heaps of weapons and ammo!

They have seen a tractor before, putting guns and armour plates on one isnt a new idea or too far fetched even in the 1910s

The Germans developed the Tank Gewehr to penetrated some armor on a Tank, 13mm and based on an Elephant gun, but it was unpopular for all the broken collar bones it gave, so it was more common for men to use an inverted bullet of common 8mm Mauser in a rifle to penetrate armor

bro is this geetslys? first video i watched from this channel

Just a heads up, audio for the self promotion bit in the beginning is too low, it is quieter than the main video itself Visual maps would go a long way in better portraying the events, I think it would aid in understanding it all, I feel dumb watching these because I can't remember what all is happening where Entertaining piece of media, I enjoyed it

I recognise your voice. Do you do Star wars videos as well?

No mention of Sir John Monash?

Being the first ever person to come against one of those beast? No tank you..

I wouldn't of wanted to be in one. They were death traps.

You sound familiar Do you have a Star Wars channel?

In ww1 the Germans used artillery to stio the tanks. In ww2 the Germans used the 88s to stop the enemy tanks as well

Is this Geetly?

Sounds like the enemy wised up to them and Learned how to deal with em quickly .

You got to admit though, germany did stupidly well to fight off so many countries and new things like tanks badically on its own since its allies was useless

Fast forward to world war 2 and that’s how everyone felt about the Tiger.

I'm just curious: could modern tanks such as the Abrams and the Challenger or even Russian T-series tanks manage or travel acrross the torn-up terrain of 'no man's land' and engage the enemy with telling effect?

Man, Warhammer owes like everything to Da Vinci-

we forget they ddnt have cell phones or news or radio

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I probably would’ve passed out

I think you underestimate the people of ww 1. Look at the war ships of the era, they are absolutely massive, they are elegant and intimidating. Look at locomotives and train cars. Look at artillery pieces, look at cars even. In 1916, people had lived through the peak of the industrial revolution. New technical marvels was part of the new world. Even if people hadn't seen a tank before, they weren't unfamiliar with machinery, in fact they would be way more accustomed to the inner workings of machinery, than most people are today. I think, the first time the soldiers saw a tank, they could instantly understand what it was, but maybe they underestimated it's potential. I've read an account somewhere where a bunch of German soldiers started laughing at the first sight of a tank. Like: "What kind of folly have the Tommy's cooked up now?" Because the early tanks were giant roaring and smoking catterpillars that moved incredibly slowly across no-mans land, and the fact is that most of the tanks broke down or got stuck in the mud after only a few hundred yards. The first tanks were not elegant or impressive, they looked like another pathetic attempt to break through the lines. Now this was of course not the reaction from every soldier. Some of them may have fled in panic, especially those who may not have been as familiar with technology, or those who realized the full potential of the tank. In the right situation, it is unstoppable with hand weapons, but if you have a direct-firing light artillery piece, armor-piercing ammunition and a concealed firing position, then an approaching tank is a sitting duck. It can't even shoot forwards. In the end, the tanks were not the thing that turned the fate of the war. Tanks could be employed as a shock factor, but in a stagnant war with locked positions, they are too easily destroyed. Anti-tank guns and anti-tank mines were not yet a thing when tanks entered the battle field, but had the war gone on, it wouldn't have been long before those weapons could be mass-produced.

i think confusion more than anything else would have been the first reaction. plus they pretty quickly worked out how to destroy tanks with artillery and weapons for infantry useage.

Anyone else get 50 ads just this video? Seems strange for such a short video. Makes me wonder if KZfaq is targeting the content and viewers

I think my grandfather in ww1 gave a good quote: "Such a beutiful machine, if not for this war, those men and I would be brothers, kin, great minds in creation of the future, it saddens my soul that we are enemy's making machines or war and death, our intelligence is a privilege to better the world, not make weapon to kill it. God forgive us." 3nd quote.

Australian VC Albert Jacka thought the Tanks were bullet magnets and not the way of the future

Tanks and planes made the difference between WW1 and WW2.

Most of this is not about tanks but WW1 battlefield movement

Is this narrator the same from Geetsly’s!?!?

imagine what a couple of abrams and a few warthogs could have done.

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Its correct to say that the allies had more tanks in ww1 than the germans but that kind of obscures the reality. The allies built literally thousands of tanks, of many different models, variants, and upgrades. The germans built 20. And not all of those ever saw action. The germans actually fielded more captured allied tanks than they fielded german built tanks. And with such minimal numbers the effect of the ‘german’ tanks was also minimal. But it would probably be more accurate to saw the allies had thousands of tanks and the germans, in effect, had none. The truth was that german industrial power and resources were much more limited, in both world wars, forcing the germans to focus on quality, not quantity.

Overall it was a fun documentary but if I can make one suggestion: please remove the faux-filmic border jittering. It gave me quite a bit of motion sickness and I had to eventually look away and only listen, which is sad because there were quite a few worthwhile photographs to see.

Have not seen the video. But can say they where not terrifyed at all by the tanks. Have to remember the first tanks used in combat was not good and not nice to drive and they broke down easy in no mans land. The germans also fast found out how to counter them, the tanks did not win ww1 as many historyens would like you to think. This really shows in world war 2.

Put into context some German soldiers never seen a car before so imagine that ?

No mention of the Renault FT? These original British tanks, as well as the Schneider or st chamont, were a dead end. The Renault FT was the design that defined the modern tank. That presentation is heavily biased.

You keep saying "the Germans MUST have been terrified" as if its not well documented that after the initial shock it was a pretty mild "meh."

Probably the same as Americans seeing german jets

Battlefield 1 is a good way to simulate this lol

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U french? U kinda sound like french hon hon hon hon

20 minute video, just tell us from sources what they fought. I dont want to listen to you slowly talking about the run up to it, dislike.

Why are you pronouncing havoc so weird?

The new all quiet on the western front sucked. So did 1917 and every other war film to come out after 2015.

My grandfather fought in WWI, my father, and uncle both fought, and were wounded in WWII. My father also fought in Korea at Chosin Reservoir. My brother and I both served in Vietnam. Neither my grandfather, my father, nor my uncle would be proud of what the country they fought for has become. Wake up America.

Too many commercials Sorry not watching this

Was listening to your video but stopped because your pretentious pronunciations with your warbly cadence of a British accent drove me up a wall. We fought wars to protect and defeat these guys, we can pronounce their silly words however we wish, including the english ones. Or, in other words, it's Warner with a W sound, not a V sound.