![]() ![]() Even German prisoners of war supposedly laughed when recalling their first glimpse of the mechanical beasts. Later versions of British heavy tanks received an unflattering paint color known as " dog turd brown. Credit: National Library of Scotland | Tom Aitken When the first tanks appeared on the battlefields of World War I, journalists described them as "grotesque creatures" and made comparisons to prehistoric animals such as dinosaurs. The earliest models of tank were slow and excessively heavy, and struggled on wet ground, but later models were much more effective. This photograph of an advancing tank dwarfing British troops, gives an idea of the scale of tanks, and the power they brought to the front line in the last years of the war. British tanks on training manoeuvres, in France, during World War I. ![]()
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