August 2024 – Every month we release new videos about tanks and tank warfare on The Tank Museum’s YouTube channel.
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‘Britzkrieg’ – How Hitler Beat Us at our Own Game
Where did Blitzkrieg, the tactics that enabled Germany to conquer most of Europe in the first years of WW II come from?
Throughout the 1920s and into the ‘30s, the German Army was forbidden from developing tanks or experimenting with armoured warfare, but in the same period, the British Army was at the forefront of mechanization and the use of armour on the battlefield.
In this film, we will look at how British tacticians like JFC Fuller and Basil Liddell Hart developed a new and revolutionary way of warfighting and how these principles were taken up and used to devastating effect by the German Army in 1939 and 1940.
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M47 – The most boring tank ever?
The US built M47 probably isn’t the most interesting tank in history – but it was a vital part of the NATOs Cold War tank force. Rushed into production at the outbreak of the Korean War, it never saw active service with the US military and was quickly superseded by the M48. But large numbers were supplied to US Allies around the world – with Germany, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Jordan, Pakistan and Austria being among the most significant users. Probably the most famous M47 crewman of all, Arnold Schwarzenegger, served on the tank during his National Service.
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Whippet | Fast and Furious 1918
Was the British Medium Mk A Whippet the World’s first proper tank? Able to do 8mph, but incredibly difficult to drive, Whippet was far faster than the British Heavy Tanks of WW1. Using their speed, Whippets were able to operate behind the enemy front line to destroy enemy formations and create chaos. At a stroke, the tank was transformed from what was effective a siege engine to a fast-moving weapon of attack and exploitation. At Amiens in August 1918, a Whippet called “Musical Box” went on a nine-hour rampage in the German Army’s rearward area destroying an Infantry battalion, a Divisional supply column and an artillery battery, an unheard of feat. In this film, we look at the Tank Museum’s rare surviving Whippet, what she was like to crew and fight, tell the story of Musical Box’s rampage and examine the unique achievement of the Whippet on the WW1 battlefield.
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