Maggie's Farm

Today is the 90th anniversary of the first use of tanks in combat. The Brit invention, designed of course�to end the stalemates of trench warfare, was first put to use on Sept. 15, 1916, in the Battle of the Somme. That machine was a Mark 1. Would like to have seen the German faces when those things first appeared on the horizon. WW1 Brit tanks came in "male" and "female" versions: the male with�a big gun and a couple of machine guns, the female with several machine guns only.�Speed 3 mph.

Animation of the Mark 1 tank here. A brief summary of that early application here.� The excellent website of the world's best Tank Museum in Bovington, UK, here.�(Stonehenge is cool, but dull, and looks like the photos. The tank museum is unforgettable.)

Below, a WW1 Mark V.

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