The Churchill tank, or the A20 Char De Fortresse as it was originally known, was developed with the assumption that trench warfare from World War I would again come into play.

The Churchill tank was the later—and one of the heavier tanks of the Second World War. Infantry Support. The Churchill tank went through several variants as the war progressed, ...

The infantry tank was named after England's celebrated wartime prime minister Winston Churchill and commissioned in 1940 to replace the famed Matilda II tank, whose mobility shortcomings were ...

Perhaps one of the Churchill tank’s most noteworthy successes was during the North African campaign, where Churchills played a prominent role as some of the heaviest Allied tanks. Near Tunis, a ...

A Churchill tank that was made at the Vauxhall factory in Luton has gone on display in the town this weekend as part of VE Day celebrations. The 38-ton Mark III tank, ...

February 24, 1915: Churchill Convenes Tank Committee. The backbone of modern conventional armies, tanks may seem like an obvious idea—and indeed the model of a self-contained, ...

Dark Docs. Hitler's Terrifying Rolling Sniper Catches Churchill Tanks by Surprise. Posted: May 23, 2025 | Last updated: May 23, 2025. On July 30, 1944, in Normandy, a unit of the 6th Guards Tank ...

A piece of Northern Ireland's wartime military history is to get a new lease of life as renovation work gets under way on a Belfast-built Churchill Mark V11 tank.

A Churchill tank that was made at the Vauxhall factory in Luton has gone on display in the town this weekend as part of VE Day celebrations. The 38-ton Mark III tank, ...

Churchill tanks were used in North Africa, Italy and western Europe, and had engines based on the one used in the Bedford truck. Image source, Tank Museum.