When were tanks first used in combat?
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The first tank became operational when Captain H. W. Mortimore of the Royal Navy took a Mark I into action at Delville Wood during the Battle of the Somme on September 15, 1916. The first successful use of massed tanks in combat occurred at the Battle of Cambrai on November 20, 1917. Tanks were later used again to great effect in the Battle of Amiens, Allied forces breaking an entrenched German position with armoured support. The tank would eventually make trench warfare obsolete, and the thousands of tanks fielded during the war by French and British forces made a significant contribution.
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