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Show Secret of Tanks Army tanks were so named almost al-most by accident. They were called "tanks" by the British war office early in the 1914-18 war, before be-fore they made their public appearance, ap-pearance, in order to prevent information in-formation of their real nature passing into enemy hands. Letters, Let-ters, telegrams, and telephone messages concerning "tanks" would cause no suspicion regarding regard-ing their real nature . , . and the name stuck. Tanks were first used in the British Brit-ish attack on Flers on September 15, 1916. |