... leave the shooting to his gunner. The French army did attempt to form divisions for concentrated offensive operations, but not until the fall of Poland. However, only three divisions would be formed before the Germans struck; none had yet trained to the techniques demanded by fluid ... Army Group B advanced with incredible speed into the Low Countries. The Luftwaffe also crippled the Allied air effort with a series of pre-emptive strikes against 50 Allied airfields. Army Group B's invasion of the Low Countries forced the Allies" reaction and soon huge columns of Allied troops were pouri...

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... were caught off guard. Another piece of pioneering technology that was invented was the "Tank." The Tank was designed early in the war but was deemed impractical, due to its lack of speed, inadaptability to various surfaces and its cumbersome design. However, Winston Churchill, head of navy, thought that the idea had ... potential and so he funded the development of the tank. It was two years after this that the Tank was ... dug in trenches. Stalemate had set in; exactly the same problem at the Western Front. Nothing had been achieved except the success of the evacuation of troops toward...

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