The Matilda infantry tank (Mark II.) mostly associated with the North Africa Campaign, was the most effective British tank in the early stages of the Second World War, due mainly to its thick armor.


Matilda tank

British soldiers stand guard as German SS troops are made to load the bodies of the dead onto trucks for transport to mass graves, following the liberation of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany; April 1945. 

To final burial

Fueling of a Short Stirling and loading it up with bombs before taking off for a mission.