Smithsonian Magazine

“SLUG-SHAPED MONSTERS”

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This 26-ton British Mark IV tank, nicknamed “Deborah,” took part in the Battle of Cambrai, history’s first mass armored assault. Deborah

was struck on the battle’s first day, killing four of its eight-man crew. It was excavated from a Cambrai battlefiel­d in 1998, and in 2017 became the centerpiec­e

of a new museum.

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