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QUESTION My grandfather used to tell me about a British World War I tank, improbably named Musical Box. He called it 'the tank that won the war'.
What made him think this? THE World War I Whippet tank (technically a Tank Medium Mark A) was designed to assist infantry and cavalry in breaking out of breaches in the Germans' trench lines created by the frontal assaults of heavier lozenge-shaped Mark IV and Mark V tanks.See the full content of this document
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Two units of Whippets -- 3rd and 6th Tank Battalions -- took part in the epic Battle of Amiens which started on August 8, 1918. One Whippet, called Musical Box, staged what was regarded as the greatest single tank action of World War I.
Despite being armed only with machine guns, this tank singlehandedly attacked a German...See the full content of this document
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