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I've Sub-edited Anti-Tank Weapons. The new version is A88052349 - please subscribe!

I switched the order of the first two sections, to put the mention of the Great War before the discussion of the Second World War.

I hope everything is OK for you, but let me know if anything needs changing

Thanks - it looks good to me, the only thing I'd add is a link to:
A88044186 - The Tank Museum, Dorset, UK

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Aha - yes

Link added and Entry sent on its way

I've just realised I forgot lunge mines!
This would fit in the last paragraph of the Infantry section, which could then be written thus:

Other anti-tank devices of the Second World War included Britain's sticky-bomb hand grenade and German magnetic grenade. Worst of all were suicidal techniques developed by the Japanese. These included soldiers hiding equipped with a percussion-capped aircraft bomb and a hammer. When spotting an enemy tank he would approach it and hit the top of the bomb with the hammer, thus detonating it. This later developed into the lunge mine, essentially a bomb on a stick. When a tank drove by, the Japanese soldier would lunge the armed mine at the tank in a manner similar to a soldier doing bayonet practice, with the impact against the tank setting off the bomb. In both cases the attacker would die in the hope that the charge would penetrate the tank's armour.

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Wow Yes, an important addition - I added that in.

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