Counter Attack at Villers Bocage by David Pentland. (GL) SHN75 giving rise to such nicknames

giving rise to such nicknames as Wooden Wonder and

Many airframes continued their long service career with the Royal Air Force as air-to-air re-fuelling tankers well into the 21st Century

Showing French Dragoons looking on as a meeting takes place between a French officer and an Austrian officer

222 and a Panzer IV tank during the combat in North Africa

its bomb exploding accurately

Counter Attack at Villers Bocage by David Pentland. (GL) SHN75 giving rise to such nicknamesDHM860GL. Counter Attack at Villers Bocage by David Pentland. A handful of Tigers from 2nd Kompanie SS Schwere Panzer Abteilung 101 halted the advance of the British 7th Armoured Division, The Desert Rats, outside the little Norman village of Villers Bocage. Prowling through the streets of the village, the solitary tank of Hauptsturmfuhrer Michael Wittmann knocked out most of the 4th County of London Yeomanry's regimental HQ Stuart and Cromwell tanks,