{"id":87488,"date":"2024-05-26T02:00:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-26T06:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=87488"},"modified":"2024-02-18T14:41:51","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T19:41:51","slug":"evolution-of-the-churchill-tank-no-damn-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2024\/05\/26\/evolution-of-the-churchill-tank-no-damn-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Evolution of The Churchill Tank | &#8220;No Damn Good&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DXH1vAT8VC8?si=7lVhyWA6AyKrhqjw\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Tank Museum<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished Feb 17, 2024  <\/p>\n<p>Designed by a company that had never built a tank before with the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, looking over their shoulders and plagued by mechanical teething troubles, the Churchill tank had unpromising beginnings. Despite this, it became one of the most successful British tanks of WW II: heavily armoured, not fast but with superb climbing ability, the Churchill served not only as a gun tank but the basis many of the specialised vehicles that helped the British and Canadian Armies ashore on D-Day.<\/p>\n<p>00:00 | Intro<br \/>\n01:20 | History &#8211; What was needed?<br \/>\n03:38 | Design, Weaponry and Armour<br \/>\n08:44 | Up-gunned and Upgraded<br \/>\n13:59 | A Look Inside<br \/>\n17:51 | Combat Performance<br \/>\n20:23 | Multi-use Platform<br \/>\n23:10 | Conclusion<\/p>\n<p>This video features archive footage courtesy of British Path\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>#tankmuseum<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tank Museum Published Feb 17, 2024 Designed by a company that had never built a tank before with the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, looking over their shoulders and plagued by mechanical teething troubles, the Churchill tank had unpromising beginnings. Despite this, it became one of the most successful British tanks of WW II: heavily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,5,663,230],"tags":[991,974,140,975,590,1103,1298],"class_list":["post-87488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-history","category-military","category-weapons","category-ww2","tag-afvs","tag-d-day","tag-design","tag-dieppe","tag-engineering","tag-infantry","tag-museum"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-mL6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87489,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87488\/revisions\/87489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}