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Hobart's Funnies is the nickname given to a number of specialist armoured fighting vehicles derived from tanks operated during the Second World War by units of the 79th Armoured Division of the British Army or by specialists from the Royal Engineers.
The following is a list of British military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels. This also would largely apply to Commonwealth of Nations countries in World War II like Australia, India and South Africa as the majority of their equipment would have been British as they were at that time part of the British Empire.
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 ...
The vehicles, museum site, and its unspoilt 300 acres (1.2 km 2) has been used for television films, documentaries and dramas. [4] The museum offers rides in a military vehicle and hosts "tank driving" in a FV432. Among the 25 working tanks are a Panzer P-68, a Chieftain and a Stuart M5A1, a Soviet T-55 and a Canadian-built Sherman.
A few vehicles were used for patrol duty along the Iran supply route. A British Indian Army armoured car regiment, partly equipped with Humbers, served in the reconquest of Burma. [6] Portugal received a number of Humber vehicles in 1943, most of them going to the Army, but with 20 going to the National Republican Guard.
Pages in category "World War II vehicles of the United Kingdom" The following 31 pages are in this category, out of 31 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
A Mark III Beaverette is displayed at the Imperial War Museum Duxford.; In 2018, the Tank Museum acquired a Mark III for restoration A Mark III is in the Cobbaton Combat Collection, a private collection of military vehicles in Umberleigh, Devon in the United Kingdom [5]
World War II armoured fighting vehicles of the United Kingdom (1 C, 36 P) Cold War armoured fighting vehicles of the United Kingdom (1 C, 18 P) A.