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David Willey may refer to: David Willey (physicist) (born 1947), physicist and entertainer; ... The Tank Museum, curator David Willey; David Wiley (disambiguation)
German Tank Museum (Deutsches Panzermuseum Munster) UK: ... The Tank Museum, Bovington UK. Curator David Willey discusses the Cold War era Swedish Stridsvagn 103 ...
The Tank Museum (previously the Bovington Tank Museum) is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles at Bovington Camp in Dorset, South West England. It is about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the village of Wool and 12 miles (19 km) west of the major port of Poole. The collection traces the history of the tank with almost 300 vehicles on display.
David John Fletcher MBE (born 1942 [1]) is an English author and military historian specialising in the history of armoured warfare, particularly that of the United Kingdom. He was an employee of The Tank Museum , Bovington from 1982 until December 2012, becoming the museum's longest serving member of staff. [ 2 ]
— David Willey, curator at The Tank Museum, Bovington. [ 12 ] From late 1914 a small number of middle-ranking British Army officers tried to persuade the War Office and the Government to consider the creation of armoured vehicles.
Old Soviet tanks have been borrowed from museums to help train Ukrainian troops on what a commander of the EU training mission for Kyiv says are booby-trap tactics used by Russian soldiers on the ...
The No1 Lincoln Machine, with lengthened Bullock tracks and Creeping Grip tractor suspension, September 1915. Work on Little Willie's predecessor began in July 1915 by the Landship Committee to meet The United Kingdom's requirement in World War I for an armoured combat vehicle able to cross an 8-foot (2.4 m) trench.
By Andrew Osborn (Reuters) - Western tanks and military hardware captured by Russian forces in Ukraine went on display in Moscow on Wednesday at an exhibition the Russian military said showed ...