Summary and Key Points: On April 24, 1918, during WWI, the first-ever tank battle occurred near Villers-Bretonneux. German A7V tanks ... standard crew of eighteen inside the cramped vehicle.

In fact, Germany didn't even build a good chunk of its own WWI-era armored ... he enlisted in the German Army and went on to design not just the A7V but other tanks as well.

As the war wore on, then, the German army was forced to develop its own response. The Mauser Tank-Gewehr was a unique and cumbersome rifle from 1918 that fired a single monstrous shot: A 13mm ...

The armoured behemoth is the only German tank ... by ­either the WWI-era Bamberg or Plath works, and had magnetic dampeners for it to work in the steel cage of a tank. Mephisto was in the first ...

Summary and Key Points: On April 24, 1918, during WWI, the first-ever tank battle occurred near Villers-Bretonneux. German A7V tanks ... standard crew of eighteen inside the cramped vehicle.