Panzer I it still performed much useful service against entrenched infantry and other "soft" targets, which were unable to respond even against thin armor, and who were highly vulnerable to machine gun fire. The small, vulnerable light tank, along with its somewhat more powerful successor the Panzer II, would soon be surpassed as a front-line armoured combat vehicle by more powerful German tanks, such as the Panzer III, and later the Panzer IV, Panzer V, and Panzer VI; nevertheless, the Panzer I's contribution to the early victories of Nazi Germany during World War II was significant. Later in that war the turrets
QF 4.7-inch Mk V naval gun War II on defensively armed merchant ships and troop ships. On 10 March 1917 the crew of a single gun on the merchant ship SS "Otaki" fought a notable action against the heavily armed German commerce raider SMS "Möwe". They managed to set the "Möwe" on fire and inflicted severe damage before the "Otaki" was sunk. "Otaki's" commander Archibald Bisset Smith went down with his ship and was eventually awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for refusing to surrender his ship. QF 4.7-inch Mk V naval gun The QF 4.7 inch Gun Mark V originated as a 45-calibre naval gun designed