Private First Class John Marquette, a ground guide, stands on the cargo ramp in front of an M60A1 main battle tank as it is offloaded from the vehicle cargo ship USNS CAPELLA (T-AKR 293). The tank will be used in support of Exercise GALLANT EAGLE '84
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Subject Operation/Series: GALLANT EAGLE '84
Base: Los Angeles
State: California (CA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: SPC5 Zedrick Rockett
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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