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During WW2 when General Patton got in trouble for slapping a shell shocked soldier, his punishment was to command an inflatable army of decoy tanks in England to divert Germany's attention from a potential attack at Normandy. This proved to be essential to the success of the D-Day invasions.

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Lafayette Pool. He was a tank platoon commander during the Allied Invasion of France, with 12 tank kills, 258 armored car kills, and over 1,000 Nazis killed.

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1. An Afghan tank commander reported to his president that Marxists planned to attack the capital. Subsequently, the President ordered tanks to guard it. The tanks then turned their guns on the palace and ultimately killed the him. The tank commander himself was secretly the Marxist general.

2. During the WWII invasion of Normandy, a new Canadian tank gunner destroyed 3 tiger tanks with his first 5 shots in combat, including a famous German tank commander with over 130 kills. The Canadian tanker's only prior experience was firing a half dozen tank rounds during training.

3. Audrey Cosens who after losing his commander took charge, directing tank fire, and then single-handedly stormed a house killing 22 Germans and took the rest prisoner. He then took 2 more houses before being killed

4. Hitler's sleep schedule prevented him from issuing the command necessary to move German reserve tanks and troops to Normandy to reinforce the 10,000 German soldiers holding the line on D-Day.

5. Semyon Budyonny, a Russian cavalry commander during WW2 stated 'the tank will never replace the horse'. Later, his 1.5 million force was encircled and was decisively defeated, the largest encirclement in history. He was stripped of his command in the Eastern Front afterwards by Stalin.

6. A USMC Captain halted the advance of 3 Israeli tanks in US protected territory in Lebanon by standing in front of the tanks, drawing his sidearm and telling the tank commander that they would only advance "over my dead body".

7. British WWI tanks would communicate with command posts by using carrier pigeons, because the noise and vibration in the tanks made radio communication impractical.

8. During WWII, a lone division commander recognized what the Germans were doing and gathered a huge force of 200 tanks that actually managed to temporarily stop the German invasion. When France fell and he refused to surrender, he ended up becoming the leader of the entire Free French Army.

9. The strategy arose after the futility of trench warfare became apparent to the German high command between the wars. German commanders saw that tanks would play a much bigger role in the next war.

10. Michael Wittmann, a German tank commander during WW2, that is known for having ambushed a British armoured division, destroying 14 tanks, 15 personnel carriers and 2 anti-tank guns, all while on board of a Tiger I tank and within a space of 15 minutes.

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In 1916 Basil Henriques, a tank commander during the battle of the somme was sprayed with glass splinters after a bomb exploded in his face. After the glass splinters were removed by medics he kept the largest piece and set it in a ring for his wife as a memento of his brush with mortal danger.

In the 1930s the Soviets developed a set of remote controlled tanks dubbed the 'teletanks' that were used in the Winter War and in WWII. They were able to recognise 16-26 different commands given by a control tank up to 1.5 km away. - source

Starting in 1918, Dwight Eisenhower commanded a unit that trained tank crews at the site of "Pickett's Charge" on the Gettysburg, Pennsylvania Civil War battleground. - source

Michael Wittmann Nazi tank commander, was credited with the destruction of 138 tanks and 132 anti-tank guns, along with an unknown number of other armoured vehicles. He accomplished half of this over a 3 week period on the eastern front.

Zinoviy Kolobanov (A Russian tank commander) knocked out 43 german tanks with only 5 KV-1s - source

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In 2006, protesters in Hungary commandeered a T-34 tank, used as an exhibit to commemorate the Hungarian uprising, and drove it towards police lines, waving Hungarian flags from the top.

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An Afghan tank commander reported to his president that Marxists planned to attack the capital. Subsequently, the President ordered tanks to guard it. The tanks then turned their guns on the palace and ultimately killed the him. The tank commander himself was secretly the Marxist general.

An Afghan tank commander warned his President that Marxist rebels planned to attack the capital. The President then ordered tanks to protect the palace on the alleged date. When the time came, the tanks turned their guns on the palace. The commander was secretly a Marxist general.

About the "Devil commander" Amadeo Guillet, a WWII Italian officer who has had so many bizarre adventures involving spies, Bedouins, Horseback anti-tank units, Imams and kings so that my original title for this post exceeded by 1000 characters.

A US Tank commander destroyed 12 eneny tanks and over 250 other vehicles in under 90 days. Despite having one of his tanks destroyed by friendly fire. He narrowly survived being hit by a panther tank, being ejected out of his tank by a shot that flipped his Sherman on its side.

Soviet tank commander Zinoviy Kolobanov was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for ambushing an entire division of German Panzers (6th Panzer Division), successfully destroying 43 German tanks with just 5 KV-1 heavy tanks. His gunner, Andrei Usov, won the Order of Lenin as a result.