An M1 Abrams main battle tank from Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) 3-69 Armor, Fort Stewart, Georgia, drives into the cargo hold of a C-17 Globemaster from the 14th Airlift Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, during night operations for JTFX 98-1. The tank is being airlifted to McCall Airfield, North Carolina. (Duplicate image, see also DD-SD-01-05119 or search 980128-F-8006R-003)

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An M1 Abrams main battle tank from Headquarters and Headquarters Company (HHC) 3-69 Armor, Fort Stewart, Georgia, drives into the cargo hold of a C-17 Globemaster from the 14th Airlift Squadron, Charleston Air Force Base, South Carolina, during night operations for JTFX 98-1. The tank is being airlifted to McCall Airfield, North Carolina. (Duplicate image, see also DD-SD-01-05119 or search 980128-F-8006R-003)

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The original finding aid described this photograph as:

Subject Operation/Series: JTFX 98-1

Base: Hunter Army Air Field

State: Georgia (GA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: SSGT C.H. Rudisill

Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Tanks!

Tanks in mass culture. Tanks were first developed separately and simultaneously by Great Britain and France as a means to break the deadlock of trench warfare on the Western Front. Their first use in combat was by the British Army in September 1916 during the Battle of the Somme. The name "tank" was adopted by the British during the early stages of their development, as a security measure to conceal their purpose.