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Churchill Mark III tanks of 'Kingforce' during the Second Battle of El Alamein. Two Mark II had been sent to North Africa for trials and they were joined by six Mk III Churchills (with the 6 pounder) to form the Special Tank Squadron commanded by Major Norris King. They saw action in the Second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942.
The Mark 7 gun was originally intended to fire the 2,240-pound (1,020 kg) Mark 5 armor-piercing shell. However, the shell-handling system for these guns was redesigned to use the "super-heavy" 2,700-pound (1,200 kg) APCBC ( Armor Piercing , Capped, Ballistic Capped) Mark 8 shell before any of the Iowa -class battleship 's keels were laid down.
BL 14 inch / 45 mk VII naval gun, Royal Navy gun from the 1930s.303 round Mk VII (1910): standard British Empire rifle and machine-gun cartridge in World Wars I and II. Tank, Light Mk VII also known as the Tetrarch tank; British light tank designed in 1938; 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 gun, an American naval gun used aboard Iowa-class battleships
Churchill AVRE with fascine on tilt-forward cradle. This particular example is a post-WW2 AVRE on the MK VII chassis. Proposed by a Canadian engineer as a result of experience from the Dieppe Raid, [2] the Assault Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE) was a Churchill Mark III or IV equipped with the "Mortar, Recoiling Spigot, Mark II" (or Petard), a spigot mortar [a] that throws the 230 mm (9.1 in ...
Tanks in Camera: The Western Desert, 1940–43. Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0750915684. — (1998). British Military Transport: 1829–1956. HMSO, for The Tank Museum. ISBN 0-11-290570-6. — (1999). Mr. Churchill's Tank: The British Infantry Tank Mark IV. Schiffer Publishing. ISBN 0764306790. — (2000). Cruiser Tank Mark VIII A27M Cromwell Mark ...
The tank howitzer was used to arm the Churchill Mark V and VIII, the Cromwell VI & VIII and the Centaur IV tanks. [3] The howitzer was built up from a section of a QF 3.7-inch anti-aircraft gun barrel, the breech mechanism of the Ordnance QF 25 pounder field gun/howitzer and the recoil mechanism of the Ordnance QF 6 pounder anti-tank gun. [4]
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The regiment originally saw action as G Battalion, Tank Corps in 1917. Part of the 1st Army Tank Brigade , 7th RTR saw service in France in May 1940, alongside the 4th Royal Tank Regiment and the 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division during the Battle of Dunkirk and was soon evacuated at Dunkirk , and abandoning most of their vehicles.