Airborne armour : Tetrarch, Locust, Hamilcar, and the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment, 1938-50 / by Keith Flint.
Material type: TextPublication details: Solihull, West Midlands : Helion & Co., 2004.Description: 1 online resource (223 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:- text
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- Great Britain. Army. Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment, 6th -- History
- Great Britain. Army. Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment, 6th
- Großbritannien Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment 6
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- Great Britain
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Aerial operations, British
- Tanks (Military science)
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Histoire des unités -- Grande-Bretagne
- Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 -- Opérations aériennes britanniques
- Chars d'assaut
- tanks (military vehicles)
- HISTORY -- Military -- World War II
- Military operations, Aerial -- British
- Regimental histories
- Tanks (Military science)
- Great Britain
- Weltkrieg 1939-1945
- World War (1939-1945)
- 1939-1945
- Geschichte 1938-1950
- 940.544941 22
- D759.6 .F55 2004eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-223).
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Preface; Acknowledgments; Part One -- Hardware; 1: Tanks; 2: Gliders; Part Two -- Operations; 3: Special Service; 4: Flying Tanks; 5: D-Day; 6: Normandy; 7: Arnhem -- Ardennes; 8: Operation Varsity; 9: Across Germany; 10: Postwar; Part Three -- Perspective; 11: Other Countries; 12: Conclusion; Bibliography
Despite all the works on airborne forces published since 1945, the full story of Britain's 'airborne armour' has remained untold. This book is intended to correct that omission. The story has two main strands - the project to fly tanks onto the battlefield to support airborne forces, and the history of the unit which operated those tanks and supported 6th Airborne Division in the ground role - the 6th Airborne Armoured Reconnaissance Regiment. The book is the result of considerable original research and contact with surviving members of 6th AARR. It contains the full development background of.
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