White Tanks In World War One

Andy Chen
January 29,2014
2º/History
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Tanks in World War One
During World War One, millions and millions of people died just because of two countries pointing fingers at each other for something that the world doesn’t even care about.
Since then, a huge war has wreaked havoc against the world mainly with major stalemates that costed lives in trench warfares. However, there were new inventions of weaponry that had attempted to break the stalemate and win the war and one of these new inventions was the tank.
The tank was built to mainly help the soldiers charge into the enemy trenches without being killed and the tanks were heavy armoured beasts that can counter many things such as bullets and especially the machine guns. The tanks also had various jobs that helped turn the tide of war. The
Basically, the tanks has been taking damage from machine gunners and artillery fire, but now they can return

fire back to the enemy lines. This modification that has turned the tank into a monstrous beast has made a huge impact in not only WWI, but also in the future.

The last major impact in my opinion that tanks have made in WWI is that the tanks helped transport supplies to their side and since tanks were helping with the supplies, the supplies were harder to destroy like how the soldiers were harder to kill when using the tank as cover. This led to the the supplies being intact when delivered instead of being raided by the opposing side and taken for their use or being destroyed. George Noble Irwin, a WWI veteran wrote in his diary, “It also was thought that it could carry 24 troops, but later it was discovered that due to the poisonous air inside the tank, the troops were in no condition to fight when they arrived at the front, so it carried supplies, if anything, after that”. This passage of his diary states that even though the tanks could not carry 24 troops due to some inconvenience, it helped
Since the passage says it could carry 24 troops, but instead it carried the supplies, that means the tank could carry a ton of supplies not just a couple of ammo crates and thats it. The large amount of supplies it can carry under its armor is a huge impact mainly because of enemies troops having a hard time to raid those supplies, but it also delivers a lot at once to the soldiers. The various jobs that the tanks do in WWI has made a huge impact in WWI. Although there were many other major impacts that the tanks have made in WWI, I personally think that the three most important impacts that the tanks has made were they acted as a shield for soldiers so they can’t be easily killed, they had guns mounted onto them so they were like a mobilized turret, and they helped protect and deliver the supplies to the front line. These three important impacts that tanks had made in WWI had changed war itself. This new weapon designed in WWI solely for the purpose to break the stalemate has done much more than that. As listed above, those were the three most important major impacts in my opinion that the tanks has made during