Alamein Tank TOG Major Reid braved barbed wire

Major Reid braved barbed wire

This volume examines the transition from multi-turreted tanks to heavy single-turret vehicles

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with some later models having their sponson machine guns removed

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Alamein Tank TOG Major Reid braved barbed wireBy Stephen Bungay. El Alamein was the World War II land battle Britain has to win. By the summer of 1942 Rommel's German forces wee threatening to sweep through the Western Desert and drive on to the Suez Canal, and Britain was in urgent need to military victory. Then in October, after 12 days of attritional tank battle and artillery bombardment, Montgomery's Eighth Army, with Australians and New Zealanders playing crucial roles in a genuinely