Multi-Turret Tanks - Too Much of a good thing
When all the world was bright and new and small boys were allowed to design tanks a lot of concepts were created for lumbering landships lurching slowly across the battlefield while delivering justice and vengeance to the enemy from a series varied weaponry in multiple turrets.
More boring designs eventually proved more useful, but in this episode we explore this inter-war golden era where tanks sprouted turrets like mushrooms after rain.
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Halftime Interview
For the halftime chat historian and author Jack Bowsher joins us to talk about his latest book on the use of tanks in the Burma campaign: “Thunder Run Meiktila 1945: The greatest combined arms manoeuvre battle of WW2”.
You can find the book and more from Jack at: https://historybowsh.com/
