Mark V tanks: One with a smokescreen and semaphore, the second moving up in the Battle of Amiens. In the latter, note the German prisoners on the left carrying a casualty to the rear on a stretcher. From The Tank Corps by Major Clough Williams-Ellis & A. Williams-Ellis.
Smoke-screen and SemaphoreMoving up in the Battle of Amiens
"Staff officers sent from G.H.Q. report that the reasons for the defeat of the Second Army are as follows:1. The fact that the troops were surprised by the massed attack of Tanks, and lost their heads when the Tanks suddenly appeared behind them, having broken under cover of natural and artificial fog.2. Lack of organised defences.3. The fact that the artillery allotted to reserve infantry units at the disposal of the Higher Command was wholly insufficient to establish fresh resistance with artillery support against the enemy who had broken through and against his Tanks.Ludendorff, 11.8.18"
German commander Erich Ludendorff writing on August 11, 1918 of the defeat of the German Second Army in the Battle of Amiens, launched on the 8th, a day Ludendorff referred to as 'the black day for the German Army.' The British fielded over 300 heavy Mark V tanks, nearly 100 lighter Whippet tanks, and over 100 supply tanks in the battle's first day.
The Tank Corps by Clough Williams-Ellis & A. Williams-Ellis, page 217, publisher: The Offices of "Country Life," Ltd. and George Newnes, Ltd., publication date: 1919
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