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Grenade, sunk by air attack at Dunkirk on 29 May [143] Wakeful, sunk by a torpedo from the E-boat S-30 on 29 May [144] Basilisk, Havant, and Keith, sunk by air attack off the beaches on 1 June [145] The French Navy lost three destroyers: Bourrasque, mined off Nieuport on 30 May; Siroco, sunk by the E-boats S-23 and S-26 on 31 May
Damaged by air attack off Bray on 1 June; left Dynamo for repair Salomé France: Tanker: 1940: 13,400: 1: 0 Sunk HMS Saltash Royal Navy: Fleet minesweeper: 1918: 710: Lt. Cdr. Thomas Randall Fowke, RN: 3: 750 Left Dynamo on 3 June due to minor damage and crew exhaustion HMS San Antonio Royal Navy: Dutch coaster: 1909: 410: Lt. Cdr. George ...
Both Russian Soviet-style tanks and the American-made Abrams are at war in Ukraine, as well as in Russia's Kursk region. From the design and combat capability perspectives, the two tank styles are ...
The Dunkirk Jack, flown only by civilian ships that participated in the Dunkirk evacuation. The Little Ships of Dunkirk were about 850 private boats [1] that sailed from Ramsgate in England to Dunkirk in northern France between 26 May and 4 June 1940 as part of Operation Dynamo, helping to rescue more than 336,000 British, French, and other Allied soldiers who were trapped on the beaches at ...
Another such tank, mounted atop the monument to Soviet tank crews in Prague, was the focus of significant controversy. The monument (known locally as 'Saint Tank') was intended to represent Lt I.G. Goncharenko's T-34-85 (the first Soviet tank to enter Prague during the liberation of Czechoslovakia in May 1945), but actually bore an IS-2M heavy ...
The Tank Urban Survival Kit (TUSK) is a series of improvements to the M1 Abrams intended to improve fighting ability in urban environments. [150] Historically, urban and other close battlefields have been poor places for tanks to fight. A tank's front armor is much stronger than that on the sides, top, or rear.
When the British Army received their new M3 medium tanks from the US, confusion immediately set in, [35] as the M3 medium tank and the M3 light tank were identically named. The British Army began naming [18] their American tanks, although the U.S. Army never used those terms until after the war. [18]
The M103 was designed to counter Soviet heavy tanks. Its long-ranged 120 mm cannon was designed to hit enemy tanks at extreme distances, but it was never used in combat. Of the 300 M103s built, most went to the Marines. [16] The tank was relatively underpowered, and the drive systems were fragile.