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A five-pointed star, painted white, was used to identify Allied vehicles from 1944. British tanks rarely had stars on the front or sides, normally just one on the rear of the turret. AFV's often carried stars on the sides and rear. Softskins normally carried stars on their sides.
American armoured vehicles were purchased and sometimes re-fitted with British guns, and were used by British and British-supplied Allied forces throughout the war. Sherman IC and VC – Sherman I and Sherman V medium tank chassis adapted by the British with a redesigned turret to mount a British 17-pounder gun. The 17-pounder could knock out ...
British tank designs and the tanks produced were identified by General Staff specification, tank type, the mark (either of type, or of specific model), a service name, and version. For example, the A27M specification for a cruiser tank entered service as 'Tank, Cruiser, Mark VIII' (the eighth cruiser design to see service) with the service name ...
In the British Army, ACI 1118 specified that the design for the formation sign should be approved by the general officer commanding the formation and reported to the War Office. [51] A further order of December 1941 (ACI 2587) specified the material of the uniform patch as printed cotton (ordnance issue), this replaced the embroidered felt (or ...
The Great Tank Scandal: British Armour in the Second World War. Part 1. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. ISBN 978-0-11290-460-1. French, David (2001) [2000]. Raising Churchill's Army: The British Army and the War Against Germany 1919–1945. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-199-24630-4. Fortin, Ludovic (2004). British Tanks ...
The bright spots of British tank design included the Valentine, Churchill (A22), Cromwell (A27M), and Comet I (A34), which together made up a little over half of total British tank production during WWII. The Valentine was a reliable, heavily armoured infantry-support tank used successfully in the desert and by the Red Army as a light tank.
Below this, troops of the British Army wore an 'arm of service' stripe (2 inches (5.1 cm) by 1 ⁄ 4 inch (0.64 cm)) showing the relevant corps colour (for the higher formations, these were most often the supporting arms, for example Engineers, red and blue, Service Corps, blue and yellow, RAMC dark cherry, and so on, see right).
A2E1 and A2E2: Medium Tank Vickers Mk I and Medium Tank Vickers Mk I (CS version) [2] A3 3-man tank (Royal Ordnance Factory); Carrier MG Mk I [3] A4 Vickers Carden-Loyd light tanks. See Light Tank Mk IV, A4E11 and A4E12 referred to the Vickers-Carden-Loyd Light Amphibious Tank: A5 Vickers Carden-Loyd 3-man light tanks.