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Operation Supercharge, 4th November 1941 by David Pentland (PC) British MK1 Grant tanks of the Staffordshire Yeomanry 8th Armoured Brigade, 10th Armoured Division, breakout from El Alamein. |
Julius Caesar Crossing the Thames, Summer 54BC by David Pentland. (PC) After an unsuccessful attempt to invade Britain the previous year, Caesar returned in force. Included among his large ranks was one Indian elephant, a beast unknown to his enemy, and as it transpired a dramatic psychological weapon which succeeded in breaching the Britons defensive position on the River Thames. |
Gold Beach, Normandy, 6th June 1944 by David Pentland. (PC) Royal Engineers Churchill AVREs of 6th Assault Regiment, 81st Squadron and DD Shermans of the 4/7th Dragoon Guards. Both units were part of perhaps the most important formation involved in the British and Canadian landings, the 79th Armoured Division or Funnies. Composed of a variety of armoured vehicles, designed to support the beach assault troops, they included mine flails, bunker busters, carpet layers, and amphibious tanks. |
Black Prince - What May Have Been by David Pentland (PC) North German Plain, September 1945. The A34 "Black Prince", was a British experimental development of the Churchill infantry tank armed with a 17 pounder. Although 6 prototypes were built, the project was dropped in favour of the new Centurion medium tank. |
Operation Nimrod, 5th May 1980 by David Pentland. (PC) Members of Pagoda troop 22 SAS, prepare to assault the front of the Iranian Embassy in Princess Gate, London. The action brought the 5 day siege of the Embassy by terrorists to an end and saved all but one of the remaining hostages. |
Night Reaper, 4th May 1942 by David Pentland. (PC) Hawker Hurricane IIc of top Czech ace Flt. Lt. K.M. Kuttlewascher, No.1 Fighter Squadron on a night intruder sortie from RAF Tangmere. On this mission he destroyed three Heinkel IIIs over their own airfield, St. Andre, in occupied France. |
Target Y The Eder Dam Raid, The Ruhr Valley, 17th May 1943 by David Pentland. (PC) At 0154am, Pilot officer Les Knight in Avro Lancaster AJ-N transmitted the codeword Dinghy, the signal that the Eder Dam had been successfully breached. Although the target was undefended by flak, its location made it extremely difficult to hit. In fact, four of the five aircraft involved in the attack failed in their attempts and Knights was the last available aircraft carrying the last available bomb! |
Phantom II by David Pentland. (PC) Phantom II of US Marine Corps, VMFA-531 (Grey Ghosts) Vietnam, Danang April 1965. |
Christmas Kiss - Albatros DV by David Pentland. (PC) Albatros DV piloted by Austro-Hungarian Ace Lt. Josef Kiss, Austrian Alps in December 1917. |
Operation Zitadelle by David Pentland (PC) Panzer v Ausf. D Panthers of SS Panther Division Das Reich make their debut during the initial stages of the German summer offensive for Kursk. This unit with others of the SS Panzer Korps made the deepest advances into the well-prepared Soviet lines. Complete success however, was to elude them when outrunning their supporting divisions at Prokhorovka they were forced to halt for six days. |
Search on the Quoile, 1985 by David Pentland. (PC) A joint arms search by members of 3rd Battalion Ulster Defence Regiment and officers of the Royal Ulster Constabulary. |
Night Soldiers by David Pentland. (PC) Afghanistan. U.S Rangers rappelling from a 160th SOAR (Special Operations Aviation Regiment) 'Nightstalkers' MH-47G Chinook into a Afghan village street. |
Insertion by David Pentland. (PC) Helmand Province, Afghanistan, July 2009. Troops from the Black Watch, 3 Battalion, Royal Regiment of Scotland (3 SCOTS) and Royal Engineers are deployed by RAF Chinook helicopters as part of Operation Panther's Claw. |
Graebner's Attack, Arnhem Bridge, 18th September 1944 by David Pentland (PC) German Armoured Reconnaissance troops led by SS Captain Viktor Graebner, of the 9th SS Panzer Division, are decimated and repulsed by the men of Colonel Frosts 2PARA, as they attempt to retake the bridge by a coup-de-main. |
In the Gully by David Pentland. (PC) Goose Green, Falkland Islands, 28th May 1982. British Paratroops of 2 Para trapped in a gorse gully finally break the main Argentine line of defence, opening the way to the final assault on Darwin and Goose Green. Despite being outnumbered, exhausted, and forced to attack over open ground under fire from enemy machine guns, artillery and aircraft, 2 Para succeeded in reaching their objective and giving the British Task Force its first much needed land victory. |
Operation Crusader, 18th November 1941 by David Pentland. (PC) British Crusader MK1 tanks of the 4th County of London Yeomanry Regiment, 22nd Armoured Brigade, charge Axis positions during the opening days of the offensive Bir El Gubi. |
Battle on the Volga, Stalingrad, Southern Russia, 30th September 1942 by David Pentland. (PC) Germany Infantry assault treoops and PzIV tank of the 24th Panzer Division are counterattacked by Soviet riflemen of General Chuikovs 62nd Army as they push towards the Red October factory works. |
The Hidden Enemy by David Pentland. (PC) Helmand Province, Afghanistan, July 2008. A specialist search team of Royal Engineers, 2 PARA, and Army Dog Unit clear the route of Improvised Explosive Devices during a routine patrol in the Sangin area. |
Battle of Tanga by David Pentland (PC) Schulztruppen and Askaris, Tanga, Tanzania 3rd-5th November 1914. Also known as the "Battle of the Bees", this was the first major engagement of the East African campaign. The British Indian Expeditonary Force's invasion of the port of Tanga failed, defeated by the smaller German force of Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck. |
Through the Hands of Victory, Baghdad, Iraq, 7th April 2003 by David Pentland. (PC) Abram M1A1 tanks and Bradley APCs of Charlie Company, the Cobras, 1-64 Desert Rogues Armoured Battalion, US 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanised) drive into central Baghdad, through Saddams famous war memorial. |
Battle of 73 Easting, Iraq, 26th February 1991 by David Pentland. (PC) Two days into Operation Desert Storm (G+2), and the allied VII Corps had wheeled through southern Iraq towards the Kuwait border. In the centre of the advance were the men and tanks of the US 3rd Armored Division and 2nd Cavalry Regiment supported by the 1st Infantry Division. The greatest glory though, went to the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, who after an initial encounter with 10 Iraqi T72 tanks all of which were destroyed near longitudinal line 60 (Easting 60), moved on until the bulk of the battle occurred at 73 Easting. Despite having to fight in almost zero visibility due to dust storms and nightfall, the regiments M2A2, M3A2 Bradleys, and M1A1 Abrams decimated the opposing elements of the Iraqi crack Tawakalna Republican Guard Division and 12th Armoured Division. Their success was followed up by the 1st Infantry Division who carried on the attack to take Objective Norfolk the following morning, and by the 3rd Armored Division to the north who engaged and destroyed other brigades of the Tawakalna and 12 Armoured Divisions. |
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