How One General's 'RIDICULOUS' Swimming Tanks Made D-Day Possible

How One General's 'RIDICULOUS' Swimming Tanks Made D-Day Possible

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They called them ridiculous.
Canvas-wrapped tanks that could “swim” through the English Channel sounded like madness—until they made the impossible invasion possible.

This documentary reveals the untold story of Major General Percy Hobart, the eccentric British officer whose bizarre “swimming tanks” turned the tide on D-Day. While skeptics mocked his inventions as suicide machines, Hobart’s Duplex Drive Shermans became the secret weapon that saved thousands of Allied lives on June 6, 1944.

From the disastrous Dieppe Raid to the stormy beaches of Normandy, discover how Hobart and Hungarian engineer Nicholas Straussler defied military logic to create amphibious armor that changed warfare forever. Learn why the same technology that sank at Omaha succeeded everywhere else—and why history nearly forgot the man behind it.

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