Best I can offer is some reruns of PawnStars - Rick

what an original comment

Maybe not, but it's absolutely true. Of course, there also many YT channels that produce absolute crap as well....

Come on guys, that's not a very positive attitude. Yes I agree, KZfaq is amazingly useful and entertaining.

How about that chasing treasure UBoats show? 🙃

Thanks for sharing that story

That's incredible. 3 months and he had to endure all that :( makes you wonder how men from other countries managed years. Thanks for sharing his story

301st? So he worked on Mark V landships then?

@@ProWalter2 yes, but I have never found out what the number of his tank was.

Well I want to say to your grandfather thank you for your service 😊

Wish for future videos about Chinese tanks.

Needs more non-british perspectives

The amount of film that exists is incredible. Seeing these vehicles on the move is extremely informative.

Given you released it the day after I was told to prepare a presentation on this topic, rather handy

Excellent. It's great seeing everything brought together like this, the old footage is the icing on the cake

I am german. When my mother, born 1942 was a Teenage girl, a neighbor of my grandfathers house was a Veteran of WW 1. The old man still had an , Imperial moustache' and was proud, that was a Dragoner ( No Translation necessary). For the reason, that Dragoner once ago had been mounted infantry, german Dragoner in 1914 also used a spiked helmet, in contrast to other Cavallry branches. When the old man was drunken, He stood in Front of His House, wearing His old helmet and sung old soldiers songs. One day the old man , who was proud of once being a Dragoner, told this to a rather young man, who Had No knowledge about Cavallry Had never heared the word Dragoner and misheared it. He asked the old man: I don't know, what Davoner are? Did you run away? Davonrennen - to run away.

Hi David, our research team supplied this information; Morlancourt was captured on the 9th August 1918 during the Battle of Amiens. 10th Battalion fought in that sector of the battle. They were using Mark Vs, but only received them about 3 weeks earlier, so he's likely to have had experience on Mark IVs too. Too many tanks lost to narrow it down further. There could be a link between the house name and a place where tanks fought.

@@thetankmuseum Thanks for that. I know there were several actions around Morlancourt during 1918 and your mention of 10th Battalion is most helpful. I’m sure I’ve seen mention of a tankodrome/assembly area nearby in one of my older reference books. And there are a few smaller WW1 cemeteries in the area. Maybe he lost one or more close companions there. Perhaps it’s time to drag out my grandfather’s 19 volume ‘Times Illustrated History of The War’ and start ploughing through the later volumes again!

Tanks are part of the calvary

Keep in mind that Churchill was known for overstating his contributions. I read one account where he appeared to claim he was responsible for the invention of the tank...

@@davidhollenshead4892 He was First Lord of the Admiralty and paid for initial development of the concept for Britain. He may not have 'invented' them, but after the concept was developed, the army adopted them.

Ft only, not FT17. It was never called ft17

​@@parodyclip36 try googling the term ft17 Its used pretty extensively, and is considered interchangeable with FT

Excuse my ignorance but is that an example of British understatement?

The A7V was a successful tank. As the Curator of the Tank Museum Munster points out, over 95% of the western front was not rough ground and quite passable to the A7V. The tracks of the A7V came from a Tractor and had to be designed this way to ensure the vehicle got into service as quickly as possible. There were other tank designs ready for production as the war ended but the Germans had essentially decided not to to produce them due to iron shortages forcing them to choose between artillery and tank. Besides they had over 400 captured British tanks.

@@joseelempecinao89..totally so….🇬🇧…😂

In 1866 strangely the smaller austrian fleet with mostly wooden ships won at Lissa against larger more modern italian fleet.

They actually developed pretty quick moving the engine compartment to the back unlike the first versions up front with the crew. Must have been nasty

"Steak and Kidney" :P

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Was only , Kampf der verbundenen Waffen' extended with planes and tanks.

The centre of gravity was too high and the turreted version was prone to tipping over.

This is just an assumption, but I guess that, since the tanks were supposed to shoot down into the trenches while crossing them, a turret on top, that would not have had enough depression to do so, would have been seen as unnecessary weight and complication.

🙌Thanks for the feedback!

Thanks for the feedback! 🙌

Leopard 2 A7V is currently used:-))

And continued for months

"Blackadder Goes Forth" parodies some of the insane thinking. The ending is...emotional.

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Everyone knows the importance of combined arms, it is the ability to achieve it that is the problem.

Surely it's the other way around?.

I think you misunderstand Chris: hecmeans the Germans best understood the way in which to use them... 'their importance on the battlefield'. Everyone knew it was important to have them.

any documented deaths?

I do not know for sure about the deaths,but there was a lot of sick crew members.

@@DrLoverLover I recall reading about British tanks found immobile with their crews passed out inside from carbon monoxide. Between poor exhaust design and the guns going off, carbon monoxide poisoning was a real issue enough to be documented in medical texts and memoirs. Not that it was a pleasant place to be anyway; the noise of the engine was deafening enough to require hand signs to communicate, the heat inside was ~60C, it reeked of sump oil, burning cordite and petrol and lacking suspension meant bridging trenches knocked crew around bad enough to knock some unconscious.

He even pronounced Ieper correctly, as it's in Flanders. Otherwise, I've heard some people butcher the French pronunciation as "Wipers" :(

Which is why WWI was a great German victory . . . oh wait. It was a tactical solution to a strategic problem and a flawed one at that. The German army was strapped for manpower and created those units by stripping their regular units of their best men, which meant when those assault units took casualties it disproportionately weakened the army, doubly so since they took higher proportionate casualties, and couldn't readily replace them. This bites hard following Luddendorf's offensive in the west as, amongst a boatload of other problems, the cream part of the German army had just been wasted leaving a mediocre (and now demoralised) core. It also wasn't anything different neither. The entente powers had been doing similar things including making platoons smaller and easier to control on the ground, increasing firepower in those platoons, increased officer and NCO initiative and tactical training. The difference being was that the entente held a massive advantage in resources and could afford to invest in technological solutions like tanks or Petain's "le teu feu" doctrine that could better allow troops like these to do their job without taking the brunt of it.