Battling With Valor
Developed from the mid-1930s as a cavalry tank, the SOMUA S35 utilized lots of cast steel parts to up production effectiveness; the bolted cast hull design had been before its time. With a 47mm primary weapon and a 190hp V8 gas engine from which it might squeeze 40km/h, the SOMUA S35 was a powerful package. The approximately 430 examples produced between 1936 and June 1940 proved a worthy adversary for German forces during fighting in Belgium and Northern France, their balanced performance leading many to acclaim the S35 as the most readily useful tank available to France at the commencement of WWII.
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