Picture No | 10638480 |
Date | 1930 |
Description | Tracked machine guns and in fights by G. H. Davis |
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Mechanical supports for the infantry of the British Army as depicted by ILN special diagrammatic artist, G. H. Davis, showing 'tankettes' with trailer wagons for transporting machine-guns together with crews on foot and two-man tanks for in-fighting. Designed to be agile and be the 'shock troops' of tomorrow (this in 1930), the platoons of in-fighters were offiically attached to battalions of the 6th and 7th Brigades.
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Source | Illustration by G. H. Davis in The Illustrated London News, 20 September 1930 page 483 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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