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| View Poll Results: Which of these British Tanks is your favourite and why | |||
| Cromwell |     | 3 | 7.89% |
| Matilda MKII |    | 5 | 13.16% |
| Churchill |    | 17 | 44.74% |
| comet |    | 12 | 31.58% |
| centaur |    | 1 | 2.63% |
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03-08-2006, 11:34 PM
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| I Like Tanks.   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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 | Re: Favourite British Tank Torn between Valentine (especially DD) and Crusader based on nothing other than aesthetics. Also got a soft spot for the looks of the Mk.VI, though I pity the poor sods sent to war in them. From your voting list i'm conflicted by the Matilda2 but I'd probably go for the Churchill for sheer presence, AVRE please. (Just reading 'Mr Churchills Tank' by David Fletcher, s'very good so far) Cheers, Adam. |
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03-08-2006, 11:36 PM
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| Junior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006
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 | Re: Favourite British Tank Mine is the Churchill a very adaptable tank which made a great come back after Dieppe, production due to cease inin 1943 after the war office decided thatspeed was more important than heavy armour,but it usefulness in the Tunisian campaigns earned it a reprieve,just as well because we could have ended up with no heavy armour in Europe. Regards Robert |
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03-08-2006, 11:43 PM
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| Per Ardua Ad Astra   Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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| Re: Favourite British Tank Why is the Sherman Firefly not on the list, it gets my vote (or the Archer).
__________________  "Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few" Sir Winston Chuchill, Summer 1940 "To him the people of Britain and the free world owe largely the way of life they enjoy today" Ensciption on Hugh Dowding's (AOC Fighter Command 1936-1940) Statue in London Aircraft of World War 2 Forum - A Warbird Forum |
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03-08-2006, 11:44 PM
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| Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2006
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| Re: Favourite British Tank Hi Adam have you read Tank Tracks by Peter Beale its about the 9th RTR who were equiped with churchills Here is a book review link http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=5660 Regards robert |
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03-08-2006, 11:52 PM
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| I Like Tanks. Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Perfidious Albion.
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| Re: Favourite British Tank Quote:
It was in the remaindered shops recently wasn't it? For some reason I didn't pick it up (perhaps too busy buying other books about.....Tanks!  ) I'll keep an eye out for it.Gnomey, I also think the Archer's a fascinating device but lets save it for the 'best TD' thread if it ever happens  So... Is the Firefly British?? I lean towards... errrr.... probably.... Yes. But then is the Grant also British? or the Valentine even? (If I recall most of 'em were built in Canada??) Cheers, Adam | |
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04-08-2006, 01:22 AM
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| WW2 Veteran  Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Originally Wallasey, Cheshire - Now a world-wide wanderer
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| Re: Favourite British Tank    Good reasons to vote for the above: They had the best crew survivor record of any WW II AFV. They could and went to places the Germans deemed impossible to reach. They out shot both the Panther and Tiger - at least in the Med Theatre |
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05-08-2006, 12:02 AM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: NW Kent, England
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| Re: Favourite British Tank The Matilda: the only decent tank we had for the first two or three years of the war - better armour than the others, though the 2-pdr gun (6pdr on the Mk 111) was no better than theirs. When we had no American tanks, the Matilda largely saved our bacon. The Churchill, Cromwell and Comet were respectable bits of kit, but we with the option of Shermans etc we didn't rely on them in quite the same way
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