Tank Collection (page 5)

Sherman tank Memorial, Leopoldsburg Railway Station
Leopoldsburg is in Belgium and it was directly behind the start line of Operation Market Garden. Here was a huge engineer dump built up to support the XXX Corps ground forces whose job it was to

Sherman tank Memorial, Hechtel, Belgium
This Sherman, No (G) E4186 1B1635 LO, has been preserved as a Memorial to all those who lost their lives during the Battle of Hechtel of 12 September 1944 - 35 civilians

Anti-tank barrier on the Belgian frontier, Sept 1939
Photograph of a steel wall built on the border between Germany and Belgium as an anti-tank barrier. The Sphere describes its design as of " somewhat unique character"

22nd Dragoons Memorial, Cresserons, Normandy
The Dragoons were equipped with Sherman flail tanks. Rotating metal chains were attached to a roller at the front of the tank and as the tank moved slowly forward

6th Canadian Field Company Canadian Royal Engineers
This, with other plaques, is on the side of a DD Sherman tank in Courseulles recovered from the sea. The area was the aiming point for the 7th Canadian Brigade Group whose engineers had the task of

British & Canadian Liberators Monument Bretteville
This striking Memorial lists all the Participants in the Liberation of Communes between the rivers Thue & Mue, 3rd Can Div, RCA, 2nd Armoured Bde, 43rd Wessex Div, 15th Scottish Div

Sherman tank with General Leclerc Memorial Utah Beach
The French 2nd Armoured Divison landed here on 2/8/44 as part of General Pattons 3rd Army. The memorial is one of a number along the beaches all of the same style which were put up by the Comite du

General Pattons HQ with Sherman tank Nehou Normandy
Patton had his Command Post here from 6 July to 2 August 1944. The memorial area was initially set up by the State of Connecticut

Royal Garhwal Rifles armoured car at Peshawar, India
Indian 2nd-18th Royal Garhwal Rifles armoured car at Peshawar, India, during a period of civil disobedience instigated by Gandhi, 23 April 1930. 1930

PO Companys Oil Tank, Basra, Iraq, WW1
PO Companys Oil Tank, Basra, Iraq, during the First World War. circa 1916

Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance at the Albert Hall
A public baptismal ceremony at the Albert Hall on Good Friday, 1928, where nine hundred men and women of the Elim Foursquare Gospel Alliance were immersed in a tank of warm water

French poster, War Bonds, WW1
French poster, design by Irma Karoly Simay, advertising War Bonds, First World War. 1918

Tank crossing No Mans Land, by Muirhead Bone, WW1
A female Mark I tank crossing No Mans Land on the Western Front, by Muirhead Bone, First World War. 1916

British soldiers with tank at Flers-Courcelette, WW1
British soldiers with a tank at Flers-Courcelette, Somme, Western Front, First World War. circa 1916

German army WWII
German troops moving into France during World War II Date: 1940

German tank WWII
German armoured and mechanised units advance under cover of smoke bombs in France during World War II. Date: 1940

German victory parade WWII
German victory parade at the Place Clemenceau in Paris, France, during World War II. Date: 1940

Fall of France WWII
Destroyed French tank after fall of France during World War II Date: 1940

German tanks WWII
German Panzerkampfwagen tank (Pz, Kpfw.III) column with Mercedes motorcycle escort in Aisne, France, during World War II Date: 1940

German manoevers pre-WWII
Dummy tank of the Reichwehr, camouflaged and concealed in the forest during the 1928 German Army manoeuvers. Date: 1928

JANTZEN SWIMWEAR 1930
Two athletic blondes in their Jantzen bathers. A green tank costume with matching cape & a belted costume in 2 shades of blue. Date: 1929

Vickers Main Battle Tank Mk. III
Vickers Main Battle Tank Mk.III, at the British Army Equipment Exhibition, held at Aldershot from 23-27 June 1980. (with a mock-up of a turret for the proposed Vickers Valiant tank). Date: 1980

A Tank-type rail locomotive
A Tank- Type rail locomotive Date: 1970s

Two knocked-out German tanks blocked the road, and a diversion had to be constructed to bypass the obstruction during World War II Date: September 1944

Liberation of Brussels during World War II Date: 1945

British armour enter Belgium, one of the first tanks passing through the village of Antoing on the Western Front during World War II Date: September 1944

Anti-tank obstacle, looking north from pillbox 766522 towards Halliun and Menin Church on the Western front during World War II. 2nd Northants, 17th Infantry Brigade Date: 21st January 1940

American advert for McCray Refrigerators - Snow White Opal Glass. Food compartments with run an electric motor with nickel-plated trimmings lined with white opal glass

Building a Brewery Date: 1941

Freight Cars Pass Thru Date: 1950

WW2 - Gen Patton - Commander of the American Tank Division
WW2 - General S. Patton (1885-1945) - Commander of the 2nd Armored Division - North Africa, November 1942. Date: 1942

A composite matchbox-ashtray made from a bullet cartridge and mounted on an 18 pounder shell case. Engraved Messines, June 7th 1917 - France and Belgium with an image in copper of a British tank

Woman runs from waves
A young woman in a clinging red tank style one-piece swimsuit with a ruffle edged collar & a beret style bathing cap encounters a large wave. Alarmed, she runs for her life Date: 1926

WW1 POSTCARD TANK 1917
A joint British and French postcard, showing a large tank overcoming the German enemy Date: 1917

Arromanches-les-Bains, Normandy, France
Children play on a World War Two tank above the Normandy town of Arromanches-les-Bains. The beach was the scene for one of the main D Day Landings in June 1944

Shell at the Front advertisement, 1914
Wartime advertisement for Shell petrol, demonstrating that it is used more extensively by Allied Forces both at home and abroad. Date: 1914

Dummy rubber Centurion Tank, Joint Concelament Centre Troops
Exercise " London Pride" held on Salisbury Plain between September 5-9 under the direction of Sir Francis Festing: troops of the Joint Concelament Centre moving a dummy Centurion tank

Bermuda - Aquarium in old British Magazine building. Date: 1910

Hawker Hedgehog, N187 with modified undercarriage and enlarged centresection fuel tank

Duchess of York inspects Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Duchess of York (as Colonel-in-Chief) inspects the First Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry at Tidworth in October 1934. Shown here inspecting a Whippet tank

WW2 - German tank driving through a burning Russian village
Photograph of a German tank driving through a burning Russian village in the Crimean area, 1941-1944 (c). From a collection of 34 photographs relating to different theatres in World War Two

WW2 poster, Gloster Aircraft National Savings Group. Our aim is one fighter per month, for the next three months. Join the group, win certificates, and help win the war. Save now for your future

Sir william Tritton
Sir William Ashbee Tritton (1875 - 1946) Military engineer who was largely responsible for inventing the tank during World War One Date: 1917

German Tank Commander
The commander of a German tank serving with the Panzertruppe Date: 1941

General Guderian with Enigma machine
General Heinz Guderian in his armoured half-track command vehicle. To the lower left of the picture is his Enigma coding machine. Date: 1941

Can-Tankerous by Bruce Bairnsfather, WW1 cartoon
" Ere! Where the ell are ye comin with that Turkish bath o yours?" Old Bill, the cartoon character created by Bruce Bairnsfather in The Bystander receives a frosty reception from soldiers

WW2 Poster -- British tanks in action
British tanks hurled Italy out of Abyssinia, and in Libya completely wrecked Axis plans of conquest. Colour photolithograph. Associated with the Royal Armoured Corps. Date: 1942

French Military Poster, WW1
French military poster, colour photolithograph published by the British Library, 1981. Reproduces a French home front poster from World War One designed by Simay

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