During World War II, the British-designed 17-pounder anti-tank gun mounted in the Sherman Firefly offered the Allies a potent ...
Doomed tanks that were the key to winning D-Day have been revealed in stunning new underwater images. The war tanks sunk during Operation Smash - a huge training exercise held on a Dorset beach in ...
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British Tank That Survived Where Others Failed

In this video, we look back at the Matilda infantry tank, one of Britain’s most respected armored vehicles of World War II.
One hundred years ago Thursday, when tanks went into battle for the first time, warfare changed forever. These giant armored killing machines have been a central feature of combat ever since. The ...
With the horrors of trench warfare in World War I, a specific need arose for a new kind of weapon, and the British were at the forefront of its creation. King's Liverpool Regiment soldier Thomas Brown ...
The First World War introduced the horrors of trench warfare. Thousands of artillery pieces launched millions of shells over frontlines brimming with infantrymen struggling in the mud for mere feet of ...
The Matilda II, or just Matilda as it was later called, was what the British called an infantry tank. As opposed to bigger cruiser-style tanks with heavier guns, infantry tanks were meant to accompany ...
The tank was introduced in World War I when Britain unveiled the then-secret weapon against German forces and were able to run these rolling fortresses right over German barbed wire and trenches, ...
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