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Rearm and Resupply by David Pentland. (P) Albert Kerscher and Otto Carius. Kinderheim, Narva Bridgehead 17th March 1944, 2nd Kompany, 502 Heavy Tank Battalion. Tiger I tanks of Albert Kersher and Otto Carius, of 2nd Company. Heavy tank Battalion 502, pull back to their headquarters at The Kinderheim to reload ammunition and refuel for the next engagement. |
Last Stand at Calais by David Pentland. (P) France, 23rd May 1940. British Cruiser Mark IA CS (A9) tanks and Bren Carriers of A squadron, 3RTR, 1st Armoured Division, line the road south of Calais, prior to being sent south to secure the bridges on the St. Omer canal. The British column of tanks failed to reach its objective, encountering the advance guard of 1st Panzer Division near the little village of Hames-Boucres, and after an inconclusive afternoon battle fell back towards Calais in the early evening. |
Original Pencil Sketch for Assault on Courcellette, The Somme, 15th September 1916 by David Pentland. (P) The village of Courcellette dominated the Somme battlefield, and it was the Canadian Corps who were given the task of taking the strongpoint. They were however aided by a new weapon, six tanks of No.1 Section, C Company, Heavy Tank Battalion. The Mark Is were commanded by Captain A. M. Inglis in C5 Creme de Menthe and supported the 31st (Alberta) Battalion in the successful assault in and around the villages Sugar Factory. |
Containing the Baranow Bridgehead, Ukraine, 1st-2nd August 1944 by David Pentland. (P) Leutnant Heinrich Kohlers Stug IIIs of 1st section, 3rd Battery, 322 Stumgeschutz Abteilung, push back repeated Soviet attempts to break out of their bridgehead at Baranow. Within only 2 days they destroyed for 23 enemy tanks. |
Rearguard at Dunkirk by David Pentland. (P) Northern France, 1st June 1940. Beleaguered troops of the BEF, fight a delaying action against the German encirclement of the doomed town. |
Enemy in Sight by David Pentland. (P) Cheux, Normandy, 25th June 1944. Royal Armoured Corps Recce troops of the 15th (Scottish) Infantry Division set up a temporary observation post to locate 12th SS Panzer Division positions, prior to Operation Epsom. The 15th Division comprised of 9th Cameronians, 2nd Glasgow Highlanders, 7th Seaforth Highlanders, 8th Royal Scots, 6th Royal Scots Fusiliers, 6th King's Own Scottish Borderers, 10th Highland Light Infantry, 2nd Gordon Highlanders and the 2nd Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. |
Tankriders by David Pentland. (P) Kursk, Russia, August 1943. Soviet counterattack by T34/76s and infantry of 3rd Tank Army on Orel. |
Lying in Wait by David Pentland. (P) Gerhard Fischer. Poland, 14th August 1944 - Jagdpanzer IV of Jagd Pz Batt 5, 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking. Jagdpanzer IVs of 5th SS Panzer Panzerjager battalion Wiking employed east of Warsaw to halt the Soviet attempts to break into the besieged city. |
Moving Forward by David Pentland. (P) Kursk, Russia, July 1943. Su-76 self propelled guns moving north of Kursk. |
Moving Out by David Pentland. (P) River Orne, D-Day, 6th June 1944. Glider troops and Tetrarch airborne tanks of 6th (Air Landing) brigade, make ready to move out from their Ranville drop zone. This brigade formed part of the second wave of the British 6th Airborne Division's landings on D-Day. |
Opening the Tscherkassy Pocket by David Pentland. (P) Russia, 4th-21st Febuary 1944. Heavy tank regiment - Bake - was temporarily created as part of the forces gathered to breakthrough to the besieged Army Corps trapped in the Korsun (or Tscherkassy) pocket. Led by Oberstleutnant Dr. Bake it consisted of heavy tank battalion 503, the panther battalion of PanzerRegiment 11, and a battalion of artillery, engineers and mountain troops. This was a powerful unit, which for over a month battled its way through to eventually relieve the pockets few survivors. |
Struggle for Sainte Mere Eglise by David Pentland. (P) Normandy, 6th June 1944. At 04.30hrs, Lt. Col. Krause led the men of 3/505th PIR to take the town of Ste. Mere Eglise. For the rest of the day the 82nd Airborne troops fought off successive German attempts to retake the strategic town. |
Forty Eight Hours, Wajsma, Central Russia, 11th - 12th December 1942 by David Pentland. (P) Wachtmeister Fritz Amling was a gun commander in 3rd Battery, Sturmgeschutz Battalion 202, in the Wajsma sector of the front at the start of the Soviet Operation Mars. During the first days fighting Amling, along with his gunner Bruno Guskowski, accounted for 24 enemy tanks, five of these in one minute! By the end of the second day, despite being wounded they had destroyed a further 18 tanks, a total of 42 in 48 hours. |
Glidermen by David Pentland. (P) Normandy, D-Day, 6th June 1944. U.S. Glider troops of the 101st Airborne Division disembark from their Waco CG4-A gliders. Due to a lack of gliders most of the Division's glider troops were forced to travel by sea, however some much needed reinforcements arrived by air. |
Hit the Beach by David Pentland. (P) 50th Division, Gold Beach, D-Day, 6th June 1944. British Infantry, Royal Engineers and Medics of the 50th Division scramble ashore during the initial wave onto Gold Beach under the guns of Hitler's Atlantic Wall. The first wave of the 50th Division was made up of the 6th Green Howards landing on King Beach and the 1st Dorsets and the 1st Royal Hampshires landing on Jig Beach, two of the three sectors of Gold Beach. |
Folgore at El Alamein by David Pentland. (P) North Africa, 30th September - 6th November 1942. During the final battle at El Alamein the Italian paratroopers of the 185th Folgore Parachute Division held the southern end of the Axis defence line down to the Qattara Depression. For several days they repelled constant attacks by a succession of Commonwealth units including the vaunted 7th Armoured Division, The Desert Rats. All of this ended on November 6th, when the last organized group commanded by Colonel Camosso and Major Zanninovich, surrounded by British tanks, finished its ammunition reserves. From an initial strength of 5,000, only 306 paratroopers were still alive. For their bravery, the British gave them the singular honour of allowing the Folgore survivors to retain their weapons on their surrender. |
D-Day Recce by David Pentland. (P) Juno Beach, Normandy, 6th June 1944. Sdkfz 232 armoured cars of 12th SS Reconnaissance Battalion commanded by Obersturmfuhrer Peter Hansmann observe the Canadian beachhead at Juno Beach. His small team was tasked with finding out if an invasion was actually underway and it drove some 80km, arriving at the coast near Tracy at 7.30 in the morning to witness the landings in progress. |
Max and Moritz, Retreat from the Donets, Russia, July to September 1943 by David Pentland. (P) After the battle of Kursk, Heavy Tank Battalion 503 Tiger Is were divided into small groups to protect and support infantry units as they retreated from the Donets river line. A typical example was the team of Rubbel (Max) and Rippl (Moritz) who for several weeks acting independently fended off pursuing Soviet armoured units. Their success was in no small part due to the skill of Rippls gunner, Kurt Knispel. |
Night Fight, Bollersdorf, East of Berlin, 19th April 1945 by David Pentland. (P) Following a full day of combat Hauptscharfurher Korner of SS Heavy Tank Battalion 503 foiled a night attack by a battalion of Josef Stalin JSII heavy tanks. By the end of the day he had accounted for 76 enemy tanks, over 40 of these on this one day alone. It was his 25th birthday. |
Kampfgruppe Carius by David Pentland. (P) Lake Ricu, Dunaburg, Latvia, 12th - 16th July 1944. Tiger I tanks of Albert Kersher and Otto Carius, of 2nd Company. Heavy tank Battalion 502, detached to help infantry units in the Karasino and Marruga areas to establish a firm front line. |
Barvenkovo by David Pentland. (P) Gerhard Fischer. Russia, 25th February 1943. Marder II, PzJager Battalion 5,SS Panzer Grenadier Division Wiking. Marder II and PzIII of 5th SS Panzer Grenadier Division Wiking during the pursuit of retreating Soviet forces south of Kharkov. Heavily outnumbered by the enemy (the division only had 5 PzIII tanks operational) Wiking and 2 equally weak divisions, 7th and 11th Panzer achieved spectacular success for Field Marshal Mansteins initial counterattack. |
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