#saint-chamond tank

[redarmyscreaming]

Char Saint-Chamond showing the overhanging front hull and the later M.1897 75 mm field gun. 1917.

[thisdayinwwi]

Aug 11 1918 OTD New York Times publishes this picture of a Saint-Chamond Tank moving through a Marne forest to attack German positions. NY Times caption calls it a "French Vanguard Tank"

Oct 23 1917 Jacques Ridel takes this photo of a French Saint-Chamond tank during the Battle of La Malmaison "Ferme Mennejean, départ des chars le 23 octobre." Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine, diffusion RMN

[thisdayinwwi]

23-ton French tank the Saint-Chamond Tank No. 62668 (Petit Jean) of the second battery of AS 38. The Tank was captured by Germans #OnThisDay Jun 11 1918 after it became lost in Lataule 

Colourized by Frédéric Duriez from France

Colourized by Richard James Molloy

[thisdayinwwi]

Photo shows the 23-ton French tank the Saint-Chamond Tank No. 62668 (Petit Jean) of the second battery of AS 38. The Tank was captured by Germans #OTD Jun 11 1918 after it became lost in Lataule. Written on the Tank is its name “Petit Jean” (Little John), also the slogan “Pas Kamarad” (Litteraly "No Friends", meaning No Mercy) and the image of a crocodile. On the cannon reads, “Toujours, et encore” (Always and once more).

Colourization of black and white images is an art form and the artists who take on this task often have very different ideas on how they should interpt the shades of black, white and grey. Here is one image colourized by two different artists.

Colourized by Frédéric Duriez from France

Colourized by Richard James Molloy

[redarmyscreaming]

Knocked out Saint-Chamond tank, autochrome.

[thisdayinwwi]

May 3 1917 IWM Q 69623 In  Conde-sur-Aisne a dog sits on French Saint-Chamond tank named "Teddy". Armed with a 75 mm field gun and side machine guns.

Production date: 1917-05-03

[ode-on-a-grecian-butt]

I watched that netflix movie of All Quiet on the Western Front.  I dont understand why they didnt follow the book.  I actually liked the 1979 one better tbh.  You get a better concept of who the characters are. But the Netflix one really does a good job teaching you how absolute dogshit being on the front was. The Saint-Chamond scene was pretty intense

[historianatlarge]

Who invented tank tracks?

In shortest terms, the tractor. Bear in mind that most of the first wave of tank designs, such as Little Willie in Britain and the Schneider CA1 in France, came fairly directly from tractor designs. Even the German A7V has some tractor in its DNA.

More often than not, it’s American Holt tractor DNA, too - not only the A7V came from the Holt in some part, o did the CA1 and Saint-Chamond tanks.

So, really, the question is who invented the continuous track - and that’s a little bit more debatable, depending on how you define the concept.