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The tank name,"Mephisto" of this captured A7V is painted on the end facing of the box-shaped tank chassis serial number 506, as almost all German tanks in WW1 were given individual names. A German-captured British tank in 1917.Battle of Cambrai (1917). Germans recover a British Tank 1917.Battle of Cambrai (1917).
The German A7V Tank and the Captured British Mark IV Tanks of World War I. Haynes Foulis. ISBN 978-0-85429-788-7. Hundleby, Maxwell; Strasheim, Rainer (2010). Sturmpanzer A7V: First of the Panzers. Tankograd. ISBN 978-3-936519-11-2. Koch, Fred (1994). Beutepanzer im Ersten Weltkrieg [Captured tanks in the First World War] (in German).
Kraut is a German word recorded in English from 1918 onwards as an ethnic slur for a German, particularly a German soldier during World War I and World War II. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Its earlier meaning in English was as a synonym for sauerkraut , a traditional Central and Eastern European food.
Lichtenstein – German airborne radar used for nightfighting, in early UHF-band BC and C-1 versions, and later VHF-band SN-2 and SN-3 versions. Lorenz Schlüsselzusatz – German cipher machine. Lorenz (navigation) – pre-war blind-landing aid used at many airports. Most German bombers had the radio equipment needed to use it. "Los!" – "Go ...
They were developed to break through barbed wire and destroy enemy machine gun posts. The British and the French were the major users of tanks during the war; tanks were a lower priority for Germany as it assumed a defensive strategy. The few tanks that Germany built were outnumbered by the number of French and British tanks captured and reused.
The German General Staff did not have enthusiasm for tanks but allowed the development of anti-tank weapons. Regardless, the development of a German tank was underway. The only project to be produced and fielded was the A7V, although only twenty were built. The majority of the fifty or so tanks fielded by Germany were captured British vehicles.
A British Mk IV Beutepanzer during WW1. Beutepanzer (German, lit. ' Captured Tank ') [1] is the German designation for a captured armored fighting vehicle. The Germans used Beutepanzers to gain insight into enemy technology and to augment their own armored forces.
In June 1917, before the first A7V tanks had been completed, the German War Ministry ordered the development of a new superheavy tank intended to be used in break-through situations. Design work was carried out by Joseph Vollmer , a reserve captain and engineer working for the Verkehrstechnische Prüfungskommission ("Transport-technologies ...