Facebook: Friends of the Tank Museum

[Matt J]

In the third picture everyone is blazing away apart from the guy on the floor checking his phone 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

You brewed up because you didn't know how clean the water was...

[fsn]

Though the British Army had switched much of its transport to motor lorries by the end if the Great War, they were not able to pull really heavy loads. In such cases steam traction engines were used, for their greater pulling power. This one is pulling a 7.5in Mk III Breech loading gun. 14 of these formed the secondary armament of the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Swiftsure, and when she was decommissioned her guns were emplaced as coast defence weapons in Britain, used to bombard German batteries on the Western Front, or refitted as the main armament aboard some of the M15-class monitors

[fsn]

You brewed up because you didn't know how clean the water was...

No. You brewed up because it's the British thing to do! 

In the third picture everyone is blazing away apart from the guy on the floor checking his phone 

I wondered about him.  From the can in front of him, I think he's just about to get a brew on.

[Techno]

THAT is a big gun ! 

Cheers - Phil

[fsn]

A woman hands out tea to soldiers (and their pet monkey) at a town in France, 1940.  (Is that Gracie Fields?)


A British soldier with the 2/7th Middlesex Regiment shares a cup of tea with an American infantryman in the Anzio bridgehead, Feb. 10, 1944


Members of 12th Parachute Battalion, 5th Parachute Brigade, 6th Airborne Division, enjoy a cup of tea after fighting their way back to their own lines near Ranville after three days behind enemy lines, June 10, 1944


Churchill AVRE crew, brewing up near Venlo, Nov. 30, 1944


A soldier lights up a cigarette in his foxhole, 27 December 1944. Next to him a mess tin of water is boiling on a "Newscaven stove", a simple petrol vapour stove made from a 25lb shell case, invented by three RASC officers.


Troops get mugs of tea while waiting to embark on ships to Sicily, Egypt, 1943


24 April 1944: Chindits making tea at their jungle bivouac

[fsn]

Tank commander Cpl Harry Stephenson of Cardiff, Wales, leans down from the turret of his Valentine tank, 11th Armoured Div, to speak to 5-year-old Pat Brooker in the village of Rottingdean, Sussex, England, 25th June 1942. (IWM)

Just thought this was cute.

[fsn]

Universal Carriers of the 2nd Bn, The Loyal Regt during field training, Malaya, October 1941. (IWM)


An Indian soldier guards a former Japanese converted Universal carrier, used by Indonesian nationalists until knocked out by British forces during the figthing in Surabaya (Soerabaja). Java, October 1945. (IWM)


Australian Sappers (Spr's), 2/9 Field (Fd) Company (Coy), Royal Australian Engineers (RAE), who having just cleared a road section of the "Vasey Highway" of mines, stand to one side as a Matilda of the 1st Australian Armd Regt passes through. Balikpapan, Borneo. 2nd July 1945. (AWM)


A flame throwing Matilda tank from 1st Australian Armd Regt, attacking a Japanese bunker set in the side of a road. The tanks are supporting A Coy, 2/10th Australian Inf Bn, on the OBOE 2 Operations. Balikpapan, Borneo. 3rd July 1945. (AWM)

[fsn]

THE BRITISH ARMY IN THE NORMANDY CAMPAIGN 1944.
Churchill AVRE entering Geilenkirchen, 19 November 1944

As a side note - I used to live in Geilenkirchen.

[fred.]

I do like a Churchill AVRE

[paulr]

Geilenkirchen doesn't sound like it's in Normandy

[fsn]

THE BRITISH ARMY IN ITALY 1944.
A 17-pdr anti-tank gun and crew near Cassino, 17 May 1944. A Sherman tank can be seen in the background.



Can't help thinking that chap with the binos i going to get a frightful shock if someone pulls the trigger on the 17pdr.   

[fsn]

THE BRITISH ARMY IN ITALY 1944.
M10 tank destroyers of 'A' Troop, 111st Battery, 72nd Anti-Tank Regiment, 6th Armoured Division, in the Arno valley near Florence, 11 - 14 August 1944.

[fsn]

The Fiat 2000 was the first Italian tank. It was notably large and heavy (40 tons, versus 28 for a British Mk V) and was armed with a 65mm howitzer in a rotating turret and no less than 10 machine guns. However, only two prototypes were produced before the war ended, and the remainder of the original order of 50 was cancelled. Attempts to use the two prototypes in the colonial war in Libya was unsuccessful due to its speed, which was low even by Great War standards

[Steve J]

I knew it was large, but didn't realise quite how large!

[fsn]

I've heard that before.




Many, many BTRs. As an aside, this is the photo you should point to whenever someone tells you that the shade of "Soviet green" you've used on your model isn't quite right 

[howayman]

Those are some great photos.
That last one is the advert for We Buy Any BTR . com (mee)

[lowlylowlycook]

The Fiat 2000 was the first Italian tank. It was notably large and heavy (40 tons, versus 28 for a British Mk V) and was armed with a 65mm howitzer in a rotating turret and no less than 10 machine guns. However, only two prototypes were produced before the war ended, and the remainder of the original order of 50 was cancelled. Attempts to use the two prototypes in the colonial war in Libya was unsuccessful due to its speed, which was low even by Great War standards

I think you could probably drive a CV33 underneath this.  Would make for a comidramatical entrance to the battlefield.   

[fsn]

THE BRITISH ARMY IN ITALY 1944.
Sherman tanks of 46th Royal Tank Regiment and a German 155mm gun, captured by the 2nd North Staffordshire Regiment, 23 January 1944. The gun was a vintage First World War French piece.


A Sherman tank of 46th Royal Tank Regiment towing a German 155mm gun, captured by the 2nd North Staffordshire Regiment, 23 January 1944. The gun was a vintage First World War French piece.

[steve_holmes_11]

I've heard that before.




Many, many BTRs. As an aside, this is the photo you should point to whenever someone tells you that the shade of "Soviet green" you've used on your model isn't quite right 

Another great Flames of War scenario.