8th Armoured Brigade (United Kingdom)
The 8th Armoured Brigade was an armoured brigade of the British Army formed in August 1941, during the Second World War and active until 1956. The brigade was formed by the renaming of 6th Cavalry Brigade, when the 1st Cavalry Division based in Palestine converted from a motorised formation to an armoured unit, becoming 10th Armoured Division.
Crusader tanks moving forward, Western Desert, 26 November 1941.
Tunisia Campaign
Routes taken by the D-Day invasion
Sherman VC Firefly of 24th Lancers near Saint-Léger, 11 June 1944
The Battle of Alam el Halfa took place between 30 August and 5 September 1942 south of El Alamein during the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War. Panzerarmee Afrika, attempted an envelopment of the British Eighth Army. In Unternehmen Brandung, the last big Axis offensive of the Western Desert Campaign, Rommel intended to defeat the Eighth Army before Allied reinforcements arrived.
Italian XX Motorised Corps (XX Corpo d'Armata, Generale Giuseppe de Stefanis)
A British Hurricane fighter brought down by Italian anti-aircraft fire during the battle.
RAF Baltimore day bomber
A British Valentine tank in North Africa.
