The very nature of warfare changed forever on 15 September 1916 with the debut of the tank at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette during an Allied offensive on the Somme. The Great War was moving towards its third year, and Allied grand strategy envisioned a concerted effort to breach the German lines along the axis where the French and British armies met in Picardy, near the River Somme.
However, the German offensive at Verdun altered the Allied plan as the French were
