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Archive - November 20th 2017, 100 years since the first successful tank use 

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Although tanks were first used at the Battle of Somme in 1916, they were not successfully employed until 1917 at the Battle of Cambrai. Early developments of the tank happened in both Great Britain and France, with Germany close behind. To this day, tanks are used in warfare around the globe, having developed dramatically over the years. 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

Tank and other military vehicles, Battle of Brunete, Spain, July... 

Gerda Taro © International Center of Photography 1937

SPAIN. Late May early June 1937. Republican soldier in a tank,... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1943

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Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1943

TUNISIA. 1943. American soldiers inspect a captured German tank.... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1944

FRANCE. Paris. French soldiers and civilians celebrating the... 

Robert Capa / International Center of Photography 1944

FRANCE. Chartres. August 23rd, 1944. During DE GAULLE's speech,... 

David Seymour 1947

BELGIUM. 1947. A destroyed German "Panther" tank. 

David Seymour 1947

FRANCE. Montebourg. 1947. WWI Memorial. 

David Seymour 1947

BELGIUM. 1947. A destroyed German "Panther" tank. 

Rene Burri 1967

A wrecked Egyptian tank in the Sinai desert after the Israeli... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

SYRIAN OCCUPIED TERRITORIES. Golan Heights. 1967. Further to... 

Rene Burri 1967

Russian made tanks of the Egyptian Army abandoned in the Sinai... 

Micha Bar-Am 1967

EGYPT. Sinaï. 1967. Israeli soldiers advance towards Suez Canal.... 

Josef Koudelka 1968

CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Prague. August 1968. Warsaw Pact tanks invade... 

Josef Koudelka 1968

CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Prague. August 1968. Warsaw Pact troops invade... 
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Philip Jones Griffiths 1968

SOUTH VIETNAM. A US Army light tank fording a river.

Josef Koudelka 1968

CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Prague. August 21st, 1968. Warsaw Pact tanks... 

Raghu Rai 1971

BANGLADESH. 1971.

Raghu Rai 1971

BANGLADESH. 1971.

Abbas 1973

ISRAEL/SYRIA. October War. Oct. 13, 1973. The body of a dead... 

Micha Bar-Am 1973

Sinai.Israeli tanks shortly before crossing the Suez Canal to... 

Susan Meiselas 1981

NICARAGUA. Esteli. September 1978. National Guard entering Esteli.... 

Abbas 1983

GRENADA. Two boys by a US tank. 

Stuart Franklin 1989

CHINA. Beijing. Tien An Men Square. 'The Tank Man' stopping the... 

Bruno Barbey 1991

KUWAIT. Burgan oil fields. American soldiers surround destroyed... 

Abbas 1991

KUWAIT. Next to a tank destroyed by US aerial bombing, a dead... 

Chris Steele-Perkins 1995

AFGHANISTAN. Government tank overlooking Kabul. 1995. 

Thomas Dworzak 2001

AFGHANISTAN. Takhar Province, village of Bangi Springs near Kunduz... 
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Larry Towell 2003

WEST BANK. Hebron. February 2003. A religious Muslim woman and... 

Abbas 2006

LEBANON. Bent Jbeil. A French Leclerc tank under UNIFIL command... 

Alex Majoli 2008

GEORGIA. August, 2008. Russian soldiers near Mtskheta, small... 

Martin Parr 2015

GB. England. London. Imperial War Museum. 2015. 

Thomas Dworzak 2015

CHINA, 2015/8. Qingdao. Navy Museum. 

Paolo Pellegrin 2016

LIBYA. Misrata. 2016. Majdi El-Mangoush photographed outside... 

Jerome Sessini 2016

IRAQ. Bashiq. November 7, 2016. 
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Jerome Sessini 2016

IRAQ. Bashiqa. November 7, 2016.
Peshmerga mourn their comrade,... 
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