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  2. Hobart's Funnies - Wikipedia

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    The tank could place demolition charges at heights up to 12 feet. The tank was driven against a wall, the framework was lowered into the ground against the wall. The tank then backed up 100 feet laying out an electric detonating cable. The explosives were then detonated by the tank driver. It was the successor to the single-charge device "Carrot".

  3. Tanks of the interwar period - Wikipedia

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    The participation by Soviet 'volunteer' tank units in the Spanish Civil War was decisive in forming Soviet tank designs for World War II. Soviet tanks dominated their foreign rivals in Spain due to their firepower, but their thin armor, in common with most tanks of the period, made them vulnerable to the new towed antitank guns being supplied ...

  4. List of war crimes - Wikipedia

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    This article lists and summarizes the war crimes that have violated the laws and customs of war since the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907.. Since many war crimes are not prosecuted (due to lack of political will, lack of effective procedures, or other practical and political reasons), [1] [better source needed] historians and lawyers will frequently make a serious case in order to prove ...

  5. List of interwar armoured fighting vehicles - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of armoured fighting vehicles developed during the interwar years between the end of the First World War (1918) and the start of the Second World War (1939). There is some overlap with tanks that served in the early part of the Second World War. See also history of the tank, list of armoured fighting vehicles.

  6. American Heritage Museum - Wikipedia

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    tank USA: Vietnam War: PT-76: amphibious tank Soviet Union: Vietnam War: T-72G: tank Soviet Union: Cold War: M551 Sheridan: amphibious tank USA: Gulf War: M60A1: tank USA: Gulf War: T-55: tank Iraq: Gulf War: ZSU-23-4M Shilka: self-propelled anti-aircraft weapon Soviet Union: Gulf War: MAZ-7310: missile launcher Iraq: Gulf War: Scud-B: missile ...

  7. List of convicted war criminals - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of convicted war criminals found guilty of war crimes under the rules of warfare as defined by the World War II Nuremberg Trials (as well as by earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949).

  8. Tank Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces - Wikipedia

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    301st Tank Battalion going into action with Mark Vs at Saint-Souplet, France in October 1918 (Selle battle) The 326th (under the command of Sereno E. Brett) and 327th Tank Battalions (later renamed the 344th and 345th [7] and organized into the 304th Tank Brigade, commanded by Patton), were the first into combat, beginning with the Battle of Saint-Mihiel as part of the US IV Corps on 12 ...

  9. Tankette - Wikipedia

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    The genesis of the tankette concept was the armoured warfare of World War I. On the Western Front in the later stage of the war, Allied tanks could break through the enemy trench lines but the infantry (needed to take and hold the ground gained) following the tanks were easily stopped or delayed by small arms fire and artillery. The ...