Gallery: This Puny French Vehicle Was the First Great Tank
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1919: French troops enter the Rhineland in Renault FT-17 light tanks, at the end of the First World War.
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Lieut. Col. George S. Patton, Jr., 1st Tank Battalion, and a French Renault tank, summer 1918.
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Tank ploughing its way through a trench and starting toward the German line, during World War I, near Saint Michel, France.
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US and French troops with Renault FT light tanks, World War I, circa 1918.
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Picture taken during the Spanish civil war in the late 30s showing a Republican soldier in one of the French made Renault FT17 tanks preparing to fight against Franco's troops.
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