![]() The tank is about six metres long with a height of about 2 metres 50. The English distinguish between male tanks which are armed with two 5.6-centimetres guns, 4 machine guns and have a 12 man crew, and female tanks which carry machine guns only and are crewed by eight men. We have discovered their weak spots, and now we know how to cope with them. The fighting on the 23, 24, and 25 of April has cleared us from the sense of powerlessness that we used to feel when first facing these beasts. “From the day they have first feel of them, the English have massively overrated the effect of their tanks. From his writing you can see they knew much more about the things they were facing, because he writes: A letter survives written by a German soldier of the 465th Infantry Regiment he wrote that to his parents as usual on. ![]() If you look at the letters and the diaries from May 1917 or Spring, 1917, the German soldiers get more relaxed and calmer. A German soldier stands next to a knocked-out British tank during the Battle of Cambrai in late 1917. ![]()
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