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Matilda I – The Little Tank That Did | Tank Chat #176
In 1940, this small but well armoured tank was pretty much all that stood between the German Blitzkrieg and a battered British Army that was retreating to the coast.
Slow, small, and armed only with a machine gun, the A11 Infantry Tank (Matilda I) would achieve great things in its only significant battlefield action - effectively saving the British Expeditionary Force from annihilation.
At Arras on 21st May 1940, Matilda Is and IIs of 4th and 7th Royal Tank Regiment counterattacked the rapidly advancing 7th Panzer Division. In doing so, they successfully halted the German advance and unnerving Hitler so much that he issued an order forbidding further advances - thus giving the British and French chance to organize the Dunkirk evacuation.
In this video, David Willey covers the history of this diminutive and often ridiculed little tank which altered the course of history by saving an entire army.
This video features archive footage courtesy of British Pathé.
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After Wittmann's Tiger Tank Rampage - The Fight back at Villers-Bocage [WW2 Documentary]
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Michael Wittmann’s rampage at Villers-Bocage was just the start of a fight that was far from the great victory the Germans would claim it to be. At 0930 on 13 June 1944, in the chaos that followed Wittmann’s fortuitous lunge into the British column, the men of the 4th Country of London Yeomanry lick their wounds and set up their defences. They’ve been given the order to hold the Villers-Bocage ...
Evolution of WW2 German Tank Destroyers
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Used extensively by the German Army of World War Two, the “tank destroyer” was developed to counter the increasing dominance of the tank on the battlefield. Germany would field a massive 18 different types of tank destroyer in World War Two - compared with the 7 or 8 different types used by US, British and Commonwealth forces. One of these in particular, Sturmgeschütz III, would destroy more ta...
Panzer III: Versatile Stalwart of The Panzer Force
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Wittmann's Tiger Tank Rampage | Villers-Bocage, June 1944
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How the First Tanks CONQUERED the Trenches
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5 Weird Tanks | Tank Chats
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Char B1 V Panzer III | Size doesn’t matter - it’s how you use it!
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Komentáře

  • @doanematthewgeraldo218
    @doanematthewgeraldo218 Před 38 vteřinami

    Me and the boys going to have fun with this one

  • @Enemy-Tiger-H1
    @Enemy-Tiger-H1 Před 16 minutami

    I have a Cobi set of this

  • @TheMalootrager
    @TheMalootrager Před 39 minutami

    Se Tiger Hunter, Glorious 😄

  • @greenriverviews6819
    @greenriverviews6819 Před 46 minutami

    Germany should have invented drones

  • @EddietheBastard
    @EddietheBastard Před hodinou

    be interesting to compare their actual combat records with those of Archer and the US sherman chassis based TDs.

  • @2Hard2Core
    @2Hard2Core Před hodinou

    My favourite tank of WW2! What a beast!

  • @isuckaspresident.dementiajoe

    Awesome tank but you better be careful. Just like with Brandon Herrera from texas. Theyll call you Nazis for showing german tanks like they did him for showing the mg40 and mg42.

  • @lockdown1119carl
    @lockdown1119carl Před 2 hodinami

    Never sat in a chief, but its close relative called olifant mk2 (basically a super modified centurion for south Africa) at the royal show....i was 8? Possibly lol

  • @user-mg4em4cj8c
    @user-mg4em4cj8c Před 3 hodinami

    Y the bricks

  • @DotepenecPL
    @DotepenecPL Před 3 hodinami

    When I was younger, I didn't dwell much on the French campaign of 1940. To je, Matilda was mostly Matilda Mk II, and as I read it was slow (and heavy as for the standards of the time), I imagined it as quite a large tank. It was almost a shock to me when I visited the Museum and saw how little Mk I was. ; ) I found it funny when I heard a 16-ton tank cost 16 thousand pounds, hehe. Then I fugured neither a ton nor a tonne was a thousand pounds. ;]

  • @elultimopanzerjager7781
    @elultimopanzerjager7781 Před 4 hodinami

    *Happy noises*

  • @user-rc4mk2mu7h
    @user-rc4mk2mu7h Před 4 hodinami

    The Sherman was the M4A3E8 from the movie “Fury”

  • @TennesseeHomesteadUSA
    @TennesseeHomesteadUSA Před 4 hodinami

    'Forgot' to mention Russian mention how big of junk Russian and Soviet equipment always was.

  • @sloths-df3gf
    @sloths-df3gf Před 5 hodinami

    Well I never! I thought German tank crews were invincible Ubermenschen who only lost the war because the Allies had 100 tanks for every one of theirs! Thanks very much for this fascinating after-action report. More of this, please!

  • @LucasTV1st
    @LucasTV1st Před 5 hodinami

    🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪🇩🇪

  • @That6ft4carguy
    @That6ft4carguy Před 5 hodinami

    The germans kinda cooked

  • @deimosian
    @deimosian Před 5 hodinami

    Someone forgot about the T28 when giving the "heaviest of the war" superlative.

  • @sloths-df3gf
    @sloths-df3gf Před 5 hodinami

    Fascinating! This video corrected some of the misconceptions I've long had about this grand design. Like the P-51 Mustang (US air frame, British Merlin engine), the Sherman Firefly is a living symbol of the vital Anglo-American alliance that won the war.

  • @2cool607
    @2cool607 Před 5 hodinami

    An absolute beautiful piece of machinery. It is so tall!! I didn’t realize how big it was until I saw it in person.

  • @MoloGer
    @MoloGer Před 5 hodinami

    Do you have the KPz 70

  • @efeocampo
    @efeocampo Před 5 hodinami

    Anyway, tanks are soon becoming dinosaurs in front a combination of war drones coordinated by AI using optics and other sensors...

  • @bojjeds3921
    @bojjeds3921 Před 6 hodinami

    I think people sometimes forget this exquisite edit was made by a Museum o.O im getting tickets yo.

  • @GeoffreyPlace
    @GeoffreyPlace Před 6 hodinami

    Don't like the "music", camera work meant I couldn't concentrate on the machine and light work only good for disco's. Nothing like this again please.

  • @dragosgrigore138
    @dragosgrigore138 Před 6 hodinami

    Saw it yesterday. Amazing!

  • @Weloveplane
    @Weloveplane Před 6 hodinami

    War Thunder player nightmares🇩🇪💀

  • @andyforbes5553
    @andyforbes5553 Před 7 hodinami

    With a gun and armour more suited to battleship.

  • @kristoffulrichpretta6046
    @kristoffulrichpretta6046 Před 7 hodinami

    i just saw this in my suggestions by yt and i wasnt subbed at that point until i saw this edit! it made me sub to "thetankmuseum"

  • @danam0228
    @danam0228 Před 7 hodinami

    FYI, World of Tanks is not realistic

  • @danam0228
    @danam0228 Před 7 hodinami

    The crews were being pushed at a pace not suitable for proper recon, but was slow enough to have tea 🤔

  • @thunderstorm8926
    @thunderstorm8926 Před 8 hodinami

    Hi : ) it’s the Finish Hakoristi ..It’s the ethnic symbol of Finland . Love your own people and heritage & symbols ❤ : )

  • @wilhelmhetrick8948
    @wilhelmhetrick8948 Před 8 hodinami

    Big kitty

  • @dalj4362
    @dalj4362 Před 8 hodinami

    Amazing story!

  • @SoulMist17
    @SoulMist17 Před 8 hodinami

    Great video, horrible music.

  • @Michael-vl8gx
    @Michael-vl8gx Před 8 hodinami

    💀

  • @747duke
    @747duke Před 9 hodinami

    I understand his personal connection & love for these tanks. But this is the worst top5 I've seen yet

  • @frankb4517
    @frankb4517 Před 9 hodinami

    Only thing missing was a nice beach umbrella over the commander’s hatch.

  • @Stachugamr
    @Stachugamr Před 9 hodinami

    Wish I can be there 😢