They first appeared at the Battle of the Somme, deployed by the British against the Germans as a 'mobile machine gun destroyer'... first code named 'mobile water tanks for Mesopotamia'... the name stuck, well 'tank' did anyway... 31 of the first 49 delivered to the trenches broke down... 2 broke through German lines all the way and the tank's usefulness was realized... the French and Germans were both soon developing their own...
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