![]() Neither its developers nor operators had moved beyond that role when the war ended in November 1918. It was a weapon designed for one simple task: crossing the killing zone between trench lines and breaking into enemy defenses. A slow, difficult-to-maneuver weapon of war, the armored fighting vehicle of 19 offered its crews minimum vision, maximum discomfort, and general mechanical unreliability. ![]() They had also played a major role in the Australian success at Amiens in early August 1918, a battle that Ludendorff characterized as “the darkest day for the German Army in the war.” Whatever their promise, the performance of those ungainly vehicles in World War I was spotty. ![]() Their first success had come in the Battle of Cambrai in fall 1917. Tanks had appeared in large numbers only at the end of the Great War.
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