In the final few months of World War I, the Allied forces were able to deploy tanks en masse, as their pioneers had envisioned, with thousands fighting in the big breakthrough battles from August 1918 until the end of the war. The development of tanks was deemed a necessity by the British, sending 49 into battle to increase mobility on the Western Front and eventually breaking the stalemate of trench warfare. Did you know that during World War I, tanks were categorized according to their “gender”, wherein male tanks had cannons and female tanks had machine guns? During the course of World War I, tanks first appeared at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette in September 1916, marking it as the first time these type of machinery have been used in a military conflict.
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