BRITISH ARMOUR USED IN
NORMANDY TO GERMANY
IN 1944-1945
Arthur was in the Reconnaissance Troop within the A-Type Battalion Structure. Other vehicles in the battalion consisted of the Crusader AA Mk III, the Humber Scout Car, ARVs, the Universal Carrier and many trucks.
Fig 7 Org Chart
Type-A Armoured Battalion Structure
Fig 4a M4 Firefly tank with 17-pounder gun at Bovington Tank Museum.
M4 Sherman Firefly in Grenadier Guards paint scheme, with the eye of vigilance and a 51 symbol.
M5 Honey Tank.
M5 Honey tank. Right side, showing the side-mounted turret firing position for the 0.5 Cal gun.
Fig 4d Churchill
Churchill Tank at Bovington Tank Museum. Photographer: MR Ibbotson, with permission.
Cromwell AA tank (Additional Photo)
Crusader AA Mk III tank, 7 June 1944. IWM (B 5129). These were the same AA tanks used by Arthur's unit.
Fig 4b M5Honey (in book)
M5 Honey Tank. (Plamen Stanev/Alamy Stock Photo
Fig 16 Alamy_M24 (in book)
A frontal view of an M24 Chaffee tank. The 75mm gun and hull-mounted machine gun are shown to good effect. Note the angular shape of the hull and turret, designed to deflect anti-tank shells and increase horizontal armour thickness. (Licence purchased from Alamy for international distribution)
Fig 4c Cromwell
Cromwell Tank at Bovington Tank Museum. Photographer: MR Ibbotson, with permission.
Humber scout car with a Comet tank behind. (Additional Photo). Arthur's recce troop was often accompanied by these cars.
A Universal Carrier (UC) and Humber scout car with infantry of 43rd (Wessex) Division during the advance on Goch, 17 February 1945. Arthur operated alongside these vehicles regularly. Additional Photo.
M3 Haltrack at the final parade of the Armoured Guards Division (Additional Photo)
Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery in an M3 Half-track facing Firefly tanks of the Guards Armoured Division in Rotenberg, Germany, 1945.