The 79th Armoured Division was a specialist armoured division of the British Army created during the Second World War. The division was created as part of the preparations for the Normandy invasion on
Brigadier N. W. Duncan of the 30th Armoured Brigade watches the attack on Caen from beside his Humber scout car outside Beuville, 8 July 1944.
Duplex Drive Sherman tank with its flotation screen lowered
Sherman Crab; flail lowered into a dip; turret traversed rear to avoid flails
Churchill AVRE from 5th Assault Regiment, Royal Engineers - Sword Beach, 6 June 1944.
Battle for Brest
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The Battle for Brest was fought in August and September 1944 on the Western Front during World War II. Part of the overall Battle for Brittany and the Allied plan for the invasion of mainland Europe c
79th Armoured Division (United Kingdom)
…invasion force to get ashore and break through the German defences. The division landed in France in June 1944. The division was further used during the Battle for Brest, the battle for the Scheldt estuary (Operation Infatuate), the battle for the Roer Triangle (Operation Blackcock), the Rhine crossings (Operation…
A US M18 Hellcat of the 705th Tank Destroyer Battalion in the streets of Brest in September 1944
Troops of the 2nd Infantry Division advance under machine gun fire into the outskirts of Brest
Commemorative plaque of General Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke's surrender, 19 September 1944 (ammunition bay near the fort des Capucins)
Fort Montbary today with a Churchill "Crocodile"