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How did the first tank come about?

The fighting conditions World War I prompted the British Army to begin research into a self-propelled vehicle which could cross trenches, crush barbed wire, and would be impervious to fire from machine-guns. Having already seen a Rolls-Royce Armoured Car, First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill decided to oversee further development. The first successful prototype tank, nicknamed Little Willie, was tested by the British Army on September 6, 1915. For secrecy's sake, the word tank was used to give the workers the impression they were constructing tracked water containers for the British army in Mesopotamia, and it was made official on December 24, 1915.

This news arrived on: 08/21/2006

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