Two soldiers of the 49th British Infantry Division (Durham Light Infantry, 49th West Riding Division) run past a German tank Pz.Kpfw.V "Panther" # 204, which was knocked out in France; June 27, 1944 .

British soldiers and a disabled German tank

A picture taken of the tankers of the 4th squadron A of the 5th Royal Tank Regiment, 3rd Armored Brigade, British 2nd Armored Division of a Cruiser Mk. IV tank in Libya, North Africa; 1941.

A Cruiser tank with crew

British Sexton self-propelled guns driving down the Charlottenburg Chaussee in Berlin during the Four Nations VJ Day parade; 7 September 1945.

Victory over Japan Parade

A British Churchill AVRE (=Armored Vehicle Royal Engineers) accompanies soldiers of the 53rd Welsh Infantry on the way to assault 's-Hertogenbosch (colloquially known as Den Bosch), Netherlands; October, 1944.

Churchill tank in infantry support

British armored vehicles on the road near the eastern-Dutch town of Hengelo. In the photo on the right - a Bren Carrier armored personnel carrier, on the left - a jeep with a trailer, in the background - an M4 Sherman tank; April 3, 1945.

A Jeep, a Tank and a Bren Carrier

The first WAAF nursing orderlies selected to fly on air-ambulance duties to France, standing in front of a Douglas Dakota Mark III of No. 233 Squadron RAF at B2/Bazenville, Normandy. June, 1944. 
From left to right: Leading Aircraftwoman Myra Roberts of Oswestry, Corporal Lydia Alford of Eastleigh and Leading Aircraftwoman Edna Birbeck of Wellingborough.

Flight Nurses

Britis "Cromwell" tanks on the road in the Dutch town of Aalst; September 18, 1944.

During Operation Market Garden

British commandos help a wounded comrade board a landing craft during a raid in Vågsøy.

The raid of special units of the British armed forces on the Norwegian islands of Vågsøy captured by Germany is also known as Operation Archery.  The main goal of the operation was to destroy the production of fish oil, which the Germans used to make explosives. The secondary goal was to force the Germans to hold and increase forces in Norway that could be transferred to the Eastern Front; December 27, 1941.



Wounded during action

The British light cruiser HMS Cleopatra; 33, sets up a smokescreen to cover a convoy in the Mediterranean, en route from Alexandria to Malta. The light cruiser HMS Euryalus; 42 is deploying its 5.25-inch artillery mounts (5.25 ″ QF Mark I) towards the Italian ships; March 22, 1942.

Protecting the convoy

British light reconnaissance armored car "Humber" Mk.III next to a German 8.8 cm FlaK 18 anti-aircraft gun, near Cologne.
Cologne Cathedral is visible in the center background. The photograph was taken on the eastern side of the Rhine river, which the Allied Forces entered in April 1945.



British Humber and a German "88"

A British Hawker "Hurricane" Mk IID attack aircraft flies over a destroyed German Marder III Sd.Kfz. 139 self-propelled gun in the desert; Tunisia, North Africa, 1943.

A plane above a wreck

British infantry in combat position near the town of Cagny,  a few miles south-east of Caen, France; 1944.

Attack during Operation Goodwood

British gunners load the Land Mattress - ground based multiple rocket launcher -  in the Reichswald, Germany; February 8, 1945.  
The Reichswald was the five-mile gap between the Maas and Rhine Rivers and the natural advance route from the German-Dutch border to the industrial Ruhr area.

British-developed weapon

British troops - part of the US 5th Army - prepare to cross the Sangro River, east-central Italy; November 1943.

Prepare for river crossing


Two British soldiers of the 1st Battalion of The Leicestershire Regiment rest on a stack of 7.92mm German Mauser 98k rifles in a field near the Dutch town of Soest.
In the hand of the soldier on the right is a bayonet from the French Lebel rifle, model 1886; May 10, 1945.

Resting on a pile of rifles

The crew of a British Cromwell (Cruiser Mk. VIII) observation tank from the 7th Armored Division, is watching the enemy in the vicinity of the municipality of Gangelt, Germany on the border with the Netherlands; December 7, 1944.

Observing enemy locations

A crew from the 26th anti-tank platoon of the 1st British parachute division is firing with a 6-pounder gun at a German tank in the forest on the outskirts of the Dutch town of Oosterbeek, near Arnhem; September 20, 1944.

Gunfight during Operation Market Garden

Two officers of the German 1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler" in the rank of SS Obersturmführer arrived at the location of the British 6th Armored Division to discuss the terms of surrender on one of the mountain roads of Austria; May 7, 1945. 

Negotiation of surrender terms

A German soldier coming out of the rubble and surrenders to the British troops in the city of Kleve, Germany; Lower Rhine region, near the Dutch border. February, 1945.

Giving up

Taken from fb:Joël Stoppels Battlefield Tours
 
During the bitter fighting for the Hochwald Gap, the 11th British Armoured Division on the right of the Canadian Corps, had passed south of Udem. They stormed the high Gochfortz Berg on the 27 February 1945, then ploughed their way through forest and bog to the German Schlieffen defences around the Balberger Wald. Beyond them, to the south, British 30 Corps were advancing on a broad front and were beginning to make faster progress. The 3rd British Division, had crossed the Udem – Weeze road and was closing on Kervenheim. The 53rd Welsh Division were in the final stages of their hard battle for the fortified town of Weeze while the 52nd (Lowland) Division were picking up speed in their advance to the south-east down the Maas river.

Picture: Churchill tanks in Kervenheim - 3rd March 1945

British armor

Men of 12 Platoon, "B" Company, 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers prepare to advance through the mist at the start of Operation "Epsom"; Normandy, France, 26 June 1944 

Waiting for the signal to go

British Sherman tanks of 33rd Armoured Brigade, supporting 3rd Infantry Division, move forward near Lebisey Wood to take up their start positions for Operation "Charnwood", the battle for Caen, France; on 8 July 1944.

Sherman tanks on the move

Dogs and their carers of No. 1 Dog Platoon, 277th Corps Field Park Company, Royal Engineers, with mines they located at Bayeux, France; 5 July 1944.

Explosive finding war dogs

Lance Corporal Lodge of 278 Field Company, Royal Engineers, holding a German hollow charge anti-tank magnetic mine. 

Anti-tank mine

 Men of 15th (Scottish) Division await the signal to advance during Operation "Epsom"; 26 June 1944. 
 The British were not as well versed in infiltration tactics as the Germans. Instead, they relied on traditional attacks behind a rolling artillery barrage to suppress enemy positions. 

British Forces

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