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The Eighth Army was a field army of the British Army during the Second World War. ... It saw the 118,000 men and 738 tanks of the Eighth Army, the main force coming ...
The 8th Armoured Division was an armoured division of the British Army during the Second World War. It was deployed to Egypt in June 1942 but never operated as a complete formation and was disbanded in January the following year.
These inter-war tanks were built to supply the British Army after the First World War. Heavier than most light tanks, they proved to be under-gunned and under-armoured. Some did see action in France and the Low Countries in 1940. They were armed with either the QF 3 pdr or the Vickers machine gun. All were withdrawn from service by 1941.
For the UK regiments, the Centurion was the primary British tank of the post-Second World War period. Development of the tank began in 1943 and manufacture of the Centurion, began in January 1945. With the 20-pounder gun it first entered combat with the British Army in the Korean War in 1950, in support of the UN forces. It was noted for its ...
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. It also quickly became evident that the initial structure and manpower of the British Army was woefully unprepared and ill-equipped for a war with ...
The first Shermans to see battle in World War II were M4A1s (Sherman IIs) with the British Eighth Army at the Second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942. The tanks had been supplied in a hurry from the US, which had removed them from their own army units.
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 8th Armoured Brigade was an armoured brigade of the British Army formed in August 1941, during the Second World War and active until 1956. The brigade was formed by the renaming of 6th Cavalry Brigade, when the 1st Cavalry Division based in Palestine (of which it was part) converted from a motorised formation (having been horse-mounted until January 1940) to an armoured unit, becoming 10th ...