WWI tank - front page of local newspaper

[zebedee]

Apparently in Apr of 1919, British 'Whippet' tanks were touring upstate NY, drumming up support for Victory Liberty Loan bonds.
Shame about the typo ... If anyone is interested, I can try better pics of the text.

 

[Mullaney]

Apparently in Apr of 1919, British 'Whippet' tanks were touring upstate NY, drumming up support for Victory Liberty Loan bonds.
Shame about the typo ... If anyone is interested, I can try better pics of the text.

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Wow! That is a neat article. I can't remember where I was reading very recently - but some of the very first tanks were nothing more than a caterpillar with a little armor plating around the critical components...

Actually, the tracked version was a major upgrade since the first armored vehicles were trucks. When they upgraded to track, they didn't sink up in the mud as far (supposedly).

 

[USAFSS-ColdWarrior]

Those were "the good old days" before world wars became fashionable.

 

[frank8003]

perhaps one would want to watch this

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