Posted on Nov 20, 2021
Post-Cambrai: JFC Fuller's Evolving Tank Tactics
2.6K
12
2
9
9
0
Edited 3 y ago
Posted 3 y ago
Responses: 2
That the British created the use of coordinating tactics of tanks and ground-support aircraft is likely the first example of what we call (The currently mothballed) MTTP / JAAT today.
Thanks for the interesting article, Dale ~
Thanks for the interesting article, Dale ~
(2)
(0)
ILLUSTRATIONS: (1) 2d Bn., Auckland Regt. advance with a British Mk. IV tank behind them. (2) A British Mk. I in Gaza, 1917. (3) A British Tank Corps corporal poses next to a 57mm gun sponson on his 10th Bn., III Corps, Mk. V heavy tank in a cornfield near Albert, 9 Aug. 1918. (4) A Lewis gun section supports infantry attacking behind a Mk. IV 'female' tank near Ypres, Aug. 1917. (5) A Mk. I female with an anti-grenade screen advances at the Somme, Sept. 1916. (6) A Whippet medium tank used for moving supplies in Flanders. (7) Brig. Hugh Elles in a Mk. IV tank called Hilda leads his 476 tanks against the Hindenburg line at Cambrai, Nov. 1917. (8) A British Whippet medium tank. (9) British tanks and infantry, supported by aircraft, advance at Cambrai, 20 Nov. 1917. (10) British tanks break through the Hindenburg Line at Amiens, 8 Aug. 1918.
(1)
(0)
Read This Next