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Green beret [4] - worn by British Commandos. Maroon beret [5] - from 1942 by airborne units. Tan beret [6] - Special Air Service from 1942 till 1944. Black beret [7] - by armoured units, including the Royal Tank Corps from 1924. Service Dress [8] - the field uniform at the start of the war until replaced by battledress.
1937 pattern web equipment (also known as '37 webbing'), officially known as "Equipment, Web 1937" and "Pattern 1937 Equipment" [1] was the British military load-carrying equipment used during the Second World War. It replaced the 1908 pattern and 1925 pattern—on which it was based—and was standard issue for British and Commonwealth troops ...
Despite the 'official' name of Stuart applied, most British primary sources refer to the tank as the 'Honey' [citation needed]. Light Tank (Airborne), M22-US supplied light tank called the 'Locust', was used in small numbers in 1945. Light Tank, M24 – US supplied tank, called the 'Chaffee' in British service, named after General Adna R ...
1963. The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito is a British twin-engined, multirole combat aircraft, introduced during the Second World War. Unusual in that its airframe was constructed mostly of wood, it was nicknamed the "Wooden Wonder", [ 4 ] or "Mossie". [ 5 ] Lord Beaverbrook, Minister of Aircraft Production, nicknamed it "Freeman's Folly ...
The Airspeed AS.51 Horsa was a British troop-carrying glider used during the Second World War. It was developed and manufactured by Airspeed Limited, alongside various subcontractors; the type was named after Horsa, the legendary 5th-century conqueror of southern Britain. Having been greatly impressed by the effective use of airborne operations ...
The river Rhine is visible snaking from top to lower right. H2S was the first airborne, ground scanning radar system. It was developed for the Royal Air Force 's Bomber Command during World War II to identify targets on the ground for night and all-weather bombing.
ML 3-inch mortar. The Ordnance ML 3-inch mortar was the United Kingdom's standard mortar used by the British Army from the early 1930s to the late 1960s, superseding the Stokes mortar. Initially handicapped by its short range compared to similar Second World War mortars, improvements of the propellant charges enabled it to be used with great ...
World War II. 2000–present. v. t. e. At the start of 1939, the British Army was, as it traditionally always had been, a small volunteer professional army. At the beginning of the Second World War on 1 September 1939, the British Army was small in comparison with those of its enemies, as it had been at the beginning of the First World War in 1914.