NEW HEAVY TANKS
ONLY SIX MILES HOUIILY LONDON. April 13. Tanks, so heavily armoured that they cannot travel at more than six m.p.li. (they stand up to direct lilts by 18-pounders) mere represented in a new type of tank warfare during yesterday’s exercises at Aldershot to show how artillery, infantry and tanks can co-operate. The new tanks—designed to comb out new territory—were represented by medium tanks travelling slowly. In the advancing front line was a battery commander in a' speedy whippet tank equipped with radio. He sent back minute-by-minute reports and directed the fire from hidden guns.
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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 46, 20 June 1938, Page 3
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97NEW HEAVY TANKS Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 46, 20 June 1938, Page 3
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