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A Marine Corps M60 main battle tank with reactive armor bolted to its hull and turret moves inland after coming ashore on D-Day of the joint services exercise SOLID SHIELD '89

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A Marine Corps M60 main battle tank with reactive armor bolted to its hull and turret moves inland after coming ashore on D-Day of the joint services exercise SOLID SHIELD '89

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Subject Operation/Series: SOLID SHIELD '89

Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune

State: North Carolina (NC)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: STAFF Sergeant Scott Stewart

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Tanks in mass culture. Tanks were first developed separately and simultaneously by Great Britain and France as a means to break the deadlock of trench warfare on the Western Front. Their first use in combat was by the British Army in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. The name "tank" was adopted by the British during the early stages of their development, as a security measure to conceal their purpose.

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01/05/1989
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