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A 6 page paper which examines the development and success level of tanks from WWI to WWII. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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the wars, implementing a great deal more technological components. However, it was during WWI and WWII that they perhaps saw the most development, being a new machine. The following paper
examines the development of the tank, and illustrates how it proved to be an incredibly powerful and useful tool for all sides who employed them during the wars.
Tanks The first tank can essentially be traced back to Britain in the year 1915 when the military officials realized that they needed
something more powerful and more flexible in terms of terrain. One author notes that, "The decision to design a new vehicle, capable of providing a better infantry support than armored
cars, faster but less effective on soft and muddy soil, was actually imposed by the trench war in which the western front had been bogged down since the early months
of 1916."1 Their first attempt was called Little Willie in 1915 and they realized that wide trenches called for a different design, which led to Little Willie becoming nothing more
than a prototype as longer tracks in following designs were employed.2 They also incorporated "bigger driving wheels" which resulted in "the first British armored vehicle, the Mark I."3
The War Office of Britain placed their first order, which consisted of 150 of these machines, but the production was actually spread out across the
country for security reasons.4 Each of the companies apparently manufactured different elements and components needed for the machine and then they were later, elsewhere, built.5 In was in the fall
of 1916 that that the first tank saw action.6 And, it was during the Battle of the Somme when "the British Commander-in-Chief in France, Marshal Haig, ordered the first two
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