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The Write Team Daily: "The Tank"
September 15, 1916. The Western Front.
After more than two years of trench warfare, British soldiers introduced a secret weapon during the Battle of Flers-Courcelette, part of the larger Battle of the Somme.
The tank.
The British Mark I was slow, noisy, mechanically unreliable—and unlike anything soldiers had ever encountered. Designed to cross trenches, crush barbed wire, and shield troops from machine-gun fire, the new armored vehicle made an imperfect battlefield debut. Many broke down before reaching the fight, but those that operated successfully offered a glimpse of warfare's future…
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