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1 lip 2020 · Titanic tank battles were once fought on what is now Belarus. Now, a dedicated team of salvagers scour marsh and forest to find these forgotten reminders of World War Two.
Image: IWM (E 1416) A Matilda tank of 7th Royal Tank Regiment photographed in the North African desert, December 1940. The heavily armoured Matilda was the principal 'I' (Infantry Support) tank during the first year of the campaign in North Africa. See object record.
More than 75 years after the war's conclusion, tanks, watchtowers, ships, and aircraft can still be spotted rusting on Normandy beaches, slowly getting buried under Sahara sands, becoming mossy planters in Belorussian forests, and acquiring gilled tenants under Pacific waters.
15 lip 2015 · The raiding party and prosecutors were in awe to find a fully intact panther tank in an underground garage as well as a number of other weapons from the Nazi era. The villa is owned by a 70-year-old man with an interest in war relics.
The M4 Sherman, officially medium tank, M4, was the most widely used medium tank by the United States and Western Allies in World War II. The M4 Sherman proved to be reliable, relatively cheap to produce, and available in great numbers.
The war in the North African desert was pure mechanised warfare and, in many respects, the most technologically advanced theatre of World War II. It was also the only theatre where, for three years, British and Commonwealth, and later US, troops were in constant contact with Axis forces.
In May of 2012 a well preserved P-40 with RAF markings was discovered in the desert sands by Polish oil workers, as well as a parachute. Some weeks earlier human skeletal remains had been discovered nearby.
