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The Infantry Tank Mark II, better known as the Matilda, is a British infantry tank of the Second World War. [ 1 ] The design began as the A12 specification in 1936, as a gun-armed counterpart to the first British infantry tank, the machine gun armed, two-man A11 Infantry Tank Mark I .
German 88 mm FlaK guns knocked out several Matilda I tanks. Some larger Matilda II tanks among the Matilda Is advanced through the artillery and anti-tank fire unscathed, German shells bouncing off their armour. The tanks destroyed the German anti-tank guns with return fire and rolled over them, killing the crews.
A Matilda being used to tow a Bristol Beaufort torpedo bomber which made a belly-landing at RAF Luqa, 16 July 1942. The Malta Tanks was a unit designation for an independent Royal Tank Regiment (RTR) unit made of a mixture of British tank types deployed to Malta in World War II.
Vickers amphibious tank M1931 (29 tanks purchased from GB) British 12-ton tank (type unclear – likely Vickers Medium Mark II , possibly Cruiser Mk I , or remotely Matilda I ) T26 (88 provided by Soviets in 1938)
The first two purpose-designed infantry tanks, the A.11 Matilda Mark I armed with a heavy machine-gun and A.12 Matilda Mark II with a heavy machine gun and 2-pounder anti-tank gun. The Mark I had been ordered in 1938, but it had become clear that a better-armed tank would be needed and the Mark II, was already under design and would be ordered ...
The tank arm also contained large numbers of the T-70 light tank. For example, the 5th Guards Tank Army roughly contained 270 T-70s and 500 T-34s. [when?] In the salient itself the Soviets assembled a large number of lend-lease tanks. These included U.S.-manufactured M3 Lee medium tanks and British-built Churchill, Matilda II and Valentine ...
This table compares tanks in use by the belligerent nations of Europe and the Pacific at the start of the Second World War, employed in the Polish Campaign (1939), the Battle of France (1940), Operation Barbarossa (1941), and the Malayan Campaign (1942).
Matilda tank" may refer to: Matilda I (tank), also known by its specification number A11, a British infantry tank in service 1938–1940; Matilda II, A12, a British ...