It saw the 118,000 men and 738 tanks of the Eighth Army, the main force coming from Egypt and also including the Tobruk garrison, engage the Italian-German force of 119,000 men and 552 …

Oct 23, 2018 · For the first time, the Eighth Army now had a tank armed with a 75mm gun capable of firing a high explosive round, so vital to deal with dug-in German anti-tank guns.

Most British tanks were plagued by unreliability. However, the 8th Army was well-served with reconnaissance vehicles - particularly after the appearance of Humber and Daimler armoured …

Tanks first appeared on the battlefield as a solution to trench warfare. They were large, heavy, slow moving vehicles capable of driving right over the top of enemy trenches; thereby …

Jun 21, 2010 · A document in the same folder, from mid-October, shows the expectation that by 1st November the 8th Army would be able to field 508 cruiser tanks (340 British of varying …

Feb 20, 2015 · The 8th Army under Montgomery, supplied with huge quantities of equipment, including Sherman tanks and lorries from the USA, overwhelmed the weak German and Italian …

The first Shermans to see battle in World War II were M4A1s (Sherman IIs) with the British Eighth Army at the Second Battle of El Alamein in October 1942. The tanks had been supplied in a …

On November 18, 1941, the British Eighth Army, as the forces in the Western Desert had been rechristened, launched Operation Crusader. The British undertook that offensive with more …

Unbeknownst to Rommel, the Eighth Army had been reinforced with more than 200 M3 General Grant tanks from the United States. In Rommel’s words, the Grants’ 75-mm guns “had torn …

f the terrain, tanks were destined to play a key role in the future offensive. Table 1 gives a quick review of the main vehicles engaged in this battle and provides some of the . echnical. llied...