Vacys Motuzas prieš 0 sekundžių Good video . Thank you for sharing ...

W. Allen Caddell prieš 7 mėnesius What's funny about this statement is, how did WW1 start? A Ruler and his wife were in a car, in a country that they knew that the population hated them, with the roof down. So this statement is ludicrous. If you ask me, the Archduke Ferdinand asked for this. You don't travel to a Foreign Land, announce that you are coming, travel in a vehicle with the roof down, they get lucky because the bomb meant for them didn't do the job, yet leaving with the top still down several hours after the first attempt. The Archduke didn't even have a motorcade with security.

Tachyon83 prieš 2 mėnesius (redaguota) ((Edit)) Yeah, I think this was the show Forgot where I saw it, but it was a show set up like this, where it retold the account of a German soldier seeing a tank for the first time. He just said, "It was a monster", or something to that effect. Would make sense, since how else would you describe something like that that had never been seen before? There's an anime called "Gate: So The Self-Defense Force Fought There", where the basic premise is "What if modern military fought a medieval style military, after the medieval army attacks first in our modern age?". One of the main characters calls a Cobra attack helicopter an "Iron Pegasus", and a tank as an "Iron elephant". She has NO other frame of reference to describe those things as such, so describes them in ways that make sense to her. A German soldier calling a tank a "monster" would make absolute sense, since how else would you describe a massive metal machine that shrugs off all attacks and keeps moving forward?

David T prieš 2 mėnesius Check out the real breakthrough. The battle of Hamel. The 1st totally synchronised use of machinery ( tanks for attack mk 2s and resupply, aircraft for reconaiscence, bombing and resupply of infantry. Artillery for prescision strikes upon german artillery and comand bunkers and the AIF under the planning and command of their own General Monash. The result was the establishment of a salient against the German lines and the beginning of the end of WW1.

1337fraggzb00N prieš 1 mėnesį Imagine: all you knew until this point was the tactics of the era of Napoleon and silly propaganda and all of the sudden a mountain of steel on tracks, with cannons and machine guns drives towards you. It's like you fight in Afghanistan or the Iraq and the enemy has flying saucers.

4zeluure prieš 6 mėnesius The wheels behind the Mark I were for steering, not for stabilizing. Basically, the first tanks were pretty much crap, terrifying, yes, but not much of a practical value. It was more an propaganda item, than an effective war machine. Besides, the French had tanks too.

Bobbie Brandel prieš 6 mėnesius Very interesting. Picture was terribly dark, however; so difficult to see. I have fiddled with my monitor controls all through to no avail. I've not read much about WWI, so I found this material fascinating. As someone else mentioned, quite amazing to realize that tanks have been around now for 100 years. Thank you for presenting this.

Old shep prieš 1 mėnesį (redaguota) Im proud to say that my grandad. was a crew member of the first, he was a gunners mate/loader. he was just 17..if a proven historian gets in touch i will supply his name..he survived the 1st and 2nd world war. and became a RSM. i wont say to which regiment.. see the conditions again.He was a proud man a great man and my Grandad..

hilldwler 420 prieš 3 savaites Had a great uncle that was in the Great War as a 18 yr old that never left the county he was born in. Said the hardest thing to deal with was the rats and the gas, “never volunteer for anything and keep your head down!” Never really spoke about the war and by the time it was of interest to me , he had already passed.