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1916 Rep. Comm. Imperial Def. 24 Dec. 1915 13 Jan. (P.R.O.: ADM 116/1339) 8 The War Office shall take now the necessary preliminary steps for raising a body of..men to man and maintain the Land Cruisers; this body to be called the ‘Tank Detachment’ of the Machine Gun Corps.

1916 Times 23 Dec. 3/4 One picture shows the preparations for the attack, and the Tank crew are taken as they are entering their strange vehicle.

1918 W. H. Allen Stories of Americans in World War 162 Any cat that looks black enough and fierce enough is apt to be kidnapped and adopted by some tank battalion.

1932 Princeton Alumni Weekly 7 Oct. 77/1 Art Lindabury and Jimmy Mills saw service abroad, the former in a tank brigade and the latter in the air service.

1950 Jrnl. Royal United Service Inst. 95 289 In the same [1939] Army Order it was also stated that on transfer to the R.A.C. the R.T.C. would be re-designated Royal Tank Regiment.

1960 R. M. Ogorkiewicz Armour xxxi. 435 Originally the Daimler scout cars were intended for liaison within the tank regiments of the armoured divisions.

1971 E. Luttwak Dict. Mod. War 153/2 It varies in size from the 12 men of a Soviet army tank platoon to the 40 plus men of a U.S. army infantry platoon.

1992 Equinox Jan. 43/2 A battle group includes over 1,000 soldiers in two tank squadrons, an artillery battery, engineer troop and helicopter support services.

1997 Independent 21 Jan. i. 8/1 The US Marine Corps band and Company C, 8th Tank Battalion of Tallahassee, Florida, marched in fearsome lock-step.

2002 Time 2 Sept. 84/2 The U.S. response was not to match the Soviets with countless tank divisions but to threaten nuclear retaliation.