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The Mark VIII tank also known as the Liberty or The International was a British-American tank design of the First World War intended to overcome the limitations of the earlier British designs and be a collaborative effort to equip France, the UK and the US with a single heavy tank design.
British Mark VIII at Bovington. A Mark VIII Liberty tank originally at the Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, in 2010 was transferred to the National Armor and Cavalry Museum at Fort Moore, GA. The vehicle was originally assigned to the American 67th Infantry Regiment (Heavy Tanks) at Fort Moore. A Liberty tank is preserved at Fort Moore, Georgia.
The Mark 8 Landing Craft Tank (also referred to as the LCT (8) or LCT Mark VIII) were landing craft tank ships operated by the British Armed Forces. The vessels were based on an American design, but improved into ocean-going vessels capable of sailing to and operating in the Far East .
18 inch Mark VIII torpedo; a British 18-inch wet-heater torpedo that began service in 1913; Tank Mark VIII, also known as the "Liberty" or "International tank"; an Anglo-American tank design of the late World War I; BL 8 inch Howitzer Mk 8 (1916); British 8-inch artillery piece used in World War I and early World War II
Cruiser Tank Mark VIII medium tank (also known as the A27 Cromwell) (United Kingdom; World War II) Cruiser Tank Mark VIII medium tank (also known as the A30 Challenger) (United Kingdom; World War II) Crusader (popular name for the A15 Cruiser Tank Mark VI) CTLS light tank (also known as T14 and T15) (United States; (World War II)
The name of the gun applies to a series of related guns, the first one officially called the 8.8 cm Flak 18, the improved 8.8 cm Flak 36, and later the 8.8 cm Flak 37. [ N 2 ] Flak is a contraction of German Flugabwehrkanone (also referred to as Fliegerabwehrkanone ) [ 11 ] [ N 3 ] meaning "aircraft-defense cannon", the original purpose of the ...
Mark 2: 153.8 inches (3.91 m ... De Soto County-class tank landing ships – built with ... Mackenzie-class destroyers – built with one Mark 33 twin mount aft ...
This armament configuration was an intermediate between the sponson-mounted weapons of the Mark VIII Liberty tank of World War I vintage, and the combination of turreted cannon, coaxial machine gun and glacis-mounted machine gun that was almost universal in World War II medium tanks. [6] The crew consisted of a tank commander, a driver and four ...