Lt. Colonel Gladeon M. Barnes from the US Army’s Ordnance Department casts a long shadow over tank development in the USA in the period around the start of WW2. Barnes was an interesting man, but some of his ideas and designs were demonstrative of a disconnect between his thinking and military reality. One such example came in 1938 with the idea for a small heavy tank armed with a single machine gun. Quite what role such a vehicle was meant to fulfill is hard to imagine years after other users of such vehicles had already accepted the serious inherent limitations of a similar type of vehicle.

Article: https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/barnes...

If you liked this video, please consider donating on Patreon or Paypal! 

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/tankartfund

Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/tankartfund

An article by Andrew Hills 

Voiceover by Nicholas Moran 

Audio Editing by Gabethetanker 

Video Editing by ya boy Jim Zawacki