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The Hunt for Mother

Could ‘Mother’, the prototype of the world’s first tank, be buried at Bovington? ‘Operation Mother’ seeks to solve this mystery….

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Tanks on D-Day

Tanks played a key part in the D-Day invasion, and particularly those peculiar, modified tanks known as Hobart’s Funnies….

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Replacing the Chieftain

The Archive at The Tank Museum has received declassified Ministry of Defence documents that relate to the replacement of the aging Chieftain Main Battle Tank….

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Valentine: What’s in a name?

No other tank bears such an un-war like name as The Valentine.  But despite its somewhat ironic nomenclature, the Valentine Infantry Tank was an inspired, if not risky development….

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Tanks at Flers

The Battle of the Somme commenced with a vast British attack on 1 July 1916. On that first day of battle, the bloodiest in the history of the British Army, there were over 57,000 British casualties….

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