On 15 September 1916, tanks were used in combat for the first time at the Battle of Flers-Courcelette. These early tanks were slow and unreliable, shown by the fact that only 25 of the 49 tanks deployed actually moved forward at the start of the attack. But more strangely, half of those 25 tanks were male and the other half were female. So why do tanks have genders and why do we name weapons at all?
0:00 Intro
0:39 Gendered tanks
1:31 A new weapon
2:01 Anthropomorphism
2:51 Naming tanks
3:42 The Battle of Amiens
4:16 Working together
5:33 Conclusion
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