Evolution, Tank, in the First World War. 進化, 坦克, 第一次世界大戰

A British Mark II male tank with spudded tracks captured by Germans near Arras on April 11, 1917. (Photo by Anthony Tucker-Jones/Mediadrumworld.com)

The A7VU was developed as a copy of the British rhomboid shape but did not go into production before the Armistice. (Photo by Anthony Tucker-Jones/Mediadrumworld.com)

The British used some 476 tanks to smash through German lines in the 1917 Battle of Cambrai. (Photo by Anthony Tucker-Jones/Mediadrumworld.com)

This Mark II male tank was photographed passing through the crumbling ruins of a French village in 1917. (Photo by Anthony Tucker-Jones/Mediadrumworld.com)

A British Mark I or II male tank, identifiable by long-barrelled naval 6-pounder gun, surrounded by Tommies. (Photo by Anthony Tucker-Jones/Mediadrumworld.com)

The German A7V Sturmpanzerwagen went into production in October 1917, but only twenty of these cumbersome land fortresses were built. (Photo by Anthony Tucker-Jones/Mediadrumworld.com)

Mark I male tank with its distinctive wheeled steering tail and chicken-wire “bomb roof”. (Photo by Anthony Tucker-Jones/Mediadrumworld.com)

Pre-WW1 the British company Hornsby developed a caterpillar artillery tractor, which helped inspire the creation of tanks. (Photo by Anthony Tucker-Jones/Mediadrumworld.com)

on November 20, 1917. (Photo by Anthony Tucker-Jones/Mediadrumworld.com)
Evolution of the Tank in the First World War
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