WW2 British Tanks
British cruiser and infantry tank formations held their own for the most part, ultimately aided by the arrival of the American M4 Sherman in large quantities.
There are a total of 32 WW2 British Tanks in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order. Flag images indicative of country of origin.
1945
The Black Prince Infantry Tank was the ultimate evolution of the storied Churchill Infantry Tank of the British Army that saw...
1940
The M13/40 was the next logical evolution of the M11/39 medium tank series of 1939 and introduced improved armor protection a...
1941
The Carro Armato M14/41 served in the medium tank role for the Italian Army (as well as a few notable others) during Worl...
1938
By its given "mark", the Tank, Cruiser, Mk I (A9) was the first in a long series of "cruiser" tanks for the British Army and ...
1940
In 1934, Sir John Carden of the Vickers-Armstrong concern began work on a fast, mobile tank requested by the British War Offi...
1941
The Crusader series of British cruiser tanks was an important contributor to the early war years, particularly in North Afric...
1943
The Challenger Mk VIII Cruiser was a British response to the very real and deadly threat being posed by German armor on the b...
1941
Like most of the Allied nations at the start of World War 2, Canada saw itself with an outdated armor corps made up of mostly...
1940
The United States Army learned by experience in World War 1 that trying to move men and machine through mud and snow proved a...
1941
No image of the American Army effort in world war two is complete with the appearance of a half-track series vehicle. The sys...
1938
The first production "tank" (then known as a "landship") was born in the UK during World War 1. In the conflict, the tank pro...
1937
No other tank in the British Army inventory was as important as the Matilda II during the early years of World War 2. The Ger...
1940
Considered one of the more successful British tank designs of the early war years, the Valentine series served both British a...
1941
The British Churchill series of tanks was the most important British tank of the Second World War. Built in numbers second on...
1941
The LVT ("Landing Vehicle Tracked") began a long line of amphibious tracked American military vehicles for the US Army and Ma...
1935
The "tank" received its baptism of fire in World War 1 as large, cumbersome lozenge-shaped tracked vehicles lumbering about t...
1941
The M3 / M5 series (commonly known as the "General Stuart") was an Allied design classified as a light tank and appeared thro...
1943
After witnessing the successes of the German airborne divisions to take over most of Western Europe in the opening salvos of ...
1944
The Light Tank M24 Chaffee was the successor to the M5 Stuart light tank. Though appearing late into the Second World War, th...
1942
The M3 medium tank series appeared at a time when Allied armor (in respects to both armor protection and armament) was genera...
1942
The M4 Sherman series of medium tanks proved an invaluable asset to Allied operations North Africa, Europe and the Pacific th...
1944
Outwardly, the Sherman Firefly series of tank destroyers looked every bit like their M4 Sherman base counterparts. Closer exa...
1919
The Mark VIII "International Tank" (also "Liberty" when powered by the American Liberty engine) would become the first tank i...
1944
The British Army "Tortoise" (Tank, Heavy Assault, Tortoise A39) was one example in the seemingly long line of "super heavy ta...
1940
Still fearing that a potential war enveloping Europe would turn into the trench-based slogfests that were World War 1, a grou...
1928
The Vickers 6-Ton (Mark E) was a light tank evaluated by the British Army but ultimately rejected. When the British Army pass...
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