Further to my post the other day I have uploaded these pictures of a destroyed Matilda tank that was apparently used as rocket practice during the Americans preparations for the Normandy landings. The final picture shows how she would've looked.
WW2 Tank Wreck
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Sarah Waldock
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thanks for including the pic as she should be. The hubby is a treadhead and could unscramble the wreck but though I can talk the talk, I can't do wreck to tank jigsaw puzzles.
I must admit I could, just a big jigsaw puzzle but I suppose I being in engineering for most of my life it come second nature.
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... and I can do the same thing with the tatters of clothing...
The Matilda 2 tank wasn't that bad a tank by WW2 standards. What let it down was it's feeble 37mm gun. At the Battle of Arras in 1940 it achieved a short lived success due to its heavy armour preventing German anti-tank fire penetration.
They also saw a lot of action in the North African campaign and were in service throughout the war, although by the end it was vulnerable to more powerful anti-tank weapons and heavily gunned tanks.
They also saw a lot of action in the North African campaign and were in service throughout the war, although by the end it was vulnerable to more powerful anti-tank weapons and heavily gunned tanks.
