World War 2 Talk - View Single Post - FT-17s in Morocco, 1925

von Poop · 18-08-2008, 02:04 PM

Reading Beevor's Spanish Civil War book led to some googling that turned up this footage:
YouTube - FT-17 tanks fighting in Northern Morocco
Grainy and sparse, but any film of armour from that period's quite uncommon.
Nice page of veteran photos of the vehicles too:
Renault FT-17 Tanks in the Rif War

One of those small colonial wars that I know next to nothing about,
1893 - 1927: Campaigns in the Rif
haven't worked out if the film is of Spanish Tanks, or French, as they seem to have been involved too?

Cheers,
Adam.

18-08-2008, 02:04 PM	#1 (permalink)
von Poop I Like Tanks Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion. Posts: 8,755	FT-17s in Morocco, 1925 Reading Beevor's Spanish Civil War book led to some googling that turned up this footage: YouTube - FT-17 tanks fighting in Northern Morocco Grainy and sparse, but any film of armour from that period's quite uncommon. Nice page of veteran photos of the vehicles too: Renault FT-17 Tanks in the Rif War One of those small colonial wars that I know next to nothing about, 1893 - 1927: Campaigns in the Rif haven't worked out if the film is of Spanish Tanks, or French, as they seem to have been involved too? Cheers, Adam. __________________ It's only the Internet.