Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery donated his famous beret to The Tank Museum in 1945. Monty was known for his eccentricity as much as his ability. Frequently adopting an unconventional style of dress, in World War Two he assumed the black beret of the Royal Tank Regiment as his standard headgear – despite being an infantryman. But why? Monty’s beret was [...]
Battle Plans This year’s mock battle is to be the most ambitious attempted to date, with Museum planning a spectacle of co-ordinated vehicle movement, infantry action and pyrotechnics. The `cold war` theme will provide the backdrop to the biggest re-enactment ever undertaken in the Museum arena. But it will take numerous hours to make sure that it all comes together; [...]
Tiger in its permanent exhibition. The Tiger is the most famous German tanks of World War II and still shrouded in myth and legend. He takes as a symbol of World War II occupies a central place in the public memory of the war. From Google Tranlate The vehicle is a gift for the teaching collection and is first exhibited [...]
The Pershing evolved from a design programme that began in 1942. It incorporated many new features when compared with earlier American tanks including torsion bar suspension and rear sprocket drive. The first of this new generation to be shipped across the Atlantic was the version T26E3, twenty of which arrived in Antwerp in February 1945 for issue to 3rd and [...]
The second part of the series is a report written and compiled by the staff of 16. Panzer-Grenadier Division using the experiences gained in fighting with Tigers of schwere Panzer-Abteilung 506 on the 4th of October 1943. Written only some months after the first Tigers had waded through hails of enemy shellfire the situation now looked quite different. Schwere Panzer Abteilung [...]
THE TANK MUSEUM TO OFFER A TIGER RIDE IN AN EBAY CHARITY AUCTION WHICH COMMENCES ON THURS 22/11/12: BID TO RIDE IN THE TIGER! How would you like to be one the lucky few who can claim to have ridden in a World War Two Tiger Tank? We’ll now’s your chance, as The Tank Museum is giving Tiger fans the [...]
At the moment “real-life” is stealing most of my spare time so in the coming weeks I will only post a few short articles to keep you all awake. When looking through my archives the other day I stumbled over a folder containing some very interesting reports. In early-mid 1943 tank units using the new Panzer VI tanks were ordered [...]
He’s famed for digging for answers – but Jeremy Paxman found himself digging the dirt during a visit to The Tank Museum. The host of BBC 1’s Newsnight, renowned for calling a spade a spade, volunteered to `break the earth` on The Tank Museum’s latest building project whilst filming a documentary about the First World War. In July, The Tank [...]
The black beret is the distinctive headgear worn by generations of Royal Tank Regiment servicemen. As the first British servicemen to adopt this form of headdress, the beret became a symbol that helped define and set the tank men apart from other units. The beret was adopted after the First World War, because like much of the uniform issued to [...]
Just when you thought the stream of World War II memoirs might have dried up, here is another wartime adventure. And this one presses all the right buttons. A monster tank called the Tiger, the most deadly weapon in Hitler’s arsenal, is devastating the Allied forces in North Africa. Cue an intrepid, young British army officer, who is summoned in [...]
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