Events for Saturday 24th April 2021
On This Day in History
First tank-to-tank combat
24th April 1918On 24th April 1918 the first ever tank-to-tank combat occurred at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.
Further Reading
Tank Action in the Great War(Hardback - 224 pages)
by Ian Verrinder
Harry Moon and eight fellow members of the Royal Sussex Regiment all volunteered to transfer to B Battalion, Heavy Branch, Machine Gun Corps in January 1917, (later the Tank Corps) to serve in the revolutionary Mk IV Tanks. After describing his experiences, training and fighting on the Somme with the… Read more...
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