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Ironsides


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Hi thought I would start a new thread about these Australian Dummy Tanks...

"used successfully by the 4th Australian Division in the attack on Le Vergieur in September 1918."

Apparantly ten were built each supported by huge wheels and manned by six crew, were able to easily move the quarter ton dummys over the boggy ground and trenches, in the event only one was disabled and two crew slightly wounded by MG fire.......

photos are from AWM look for Dummy Tanks

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I'm sure I've read that some Germans surrendered to dummy tanks.

I guess that's a bit like the snow globe moment in 'Mars Attacks'.

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Hi All, I was rather hopeing that someone out there may know more about this action any input would be appreciated...is this the only use of dummy tanks in actual combat?, I cant think another, static dummys used to decieve are many and varied....But in Battle?......

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Hello Ironsides and Phil -also the others of course,

found a pictureof a german dummy - a try of scratchbuild Mark IV type i think.
Described as exercise tank only for training use .
But interesting stuff Ironsides - i allways thought Erwin Rommel was the first one who
used these "tactic" . Maybe he had knowledge of the raid you've told here but it is very
unlikely.

Everytime it's fine to find here new aspects of war

in this sense
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Sorry here is the picture i told from :

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