"Etwas kommt!! - Something is Coming!"

For three years both sides had been locked in bloody trench warfare, forced underground by the machine gun.  Desperate to break the impasse, the British decided to mount an attack in the Cambrai area with a combined force of infantry, artillery, aircraft, and a heavy concentration of tanks - still an unproven weapon.  On November 20, 1917 the attack was launched and the tanks crushed the belts of barbed wire and trenches before them - thought to be impregnable by the Germans.  By mid-day British forces were four miles deep into enemy territory.  Church bells rang in Britain.  Though the Germans recovered that territory, the pattern had been established.  Tanks were the new weapon that would bring mobility back to the battlefield.

Emhar #4002, 1/35 Mark IV Female