Mad Russian Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 What tanks were assigned to the 29th RTR in Normandy? Were they Shermans or Churchill's? Does anybody know of a good web site for information on British units in NW Europe? Thanks for the information. Panther Commander 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Russian Posted January 21, 2004 Author Share Posted January 21, 2004 Sorry that should have been 29th Armored Brigade. Panther Commander 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 The 29th AB was the AB of 11th Armoured Division under General 'Pip' Roberts, allegedly the most competent armour commander of the British Army in ww2. 29TH ARMOURED BRIGADE Brigade HQ 23RD Hussars 3RD Royal Tank Regiment 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry All Shermans, on the ratio of 1 Firefly per troop in the squadrons. Not sure what the British did for CS work in Sherman squadrons. The Reconnaissance Regiment was 2nd Northants Yeo, who were equipped with Cromwells and Challengers. Since they were a divisional unit, they were not with 29th AB. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreas Posted January 21, 2004 Share Posted January 21, 2004 BTW - 2nd Northants Yeo is the only regiment for which I have been able to find evidence that they used Challengers. Rumour has it that the Reconnaissance Regiment of Guards Armoured had them, but I don't think that could be verified. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Russian Posted January 21, 2004 Author Share Posted January 21, 2004 Originally posted by Andreas: BTW - 2nd Northants Yeo is the only regiment for which I have been able to find evidence that they used Challengers. Rumour has it that the Reconnaissance Regiment of Guards Armoured had them, but I don't think that could be verified. Thanks for the info. I'm doing a scenario for CMAK on Operation Goodwood and I needed the type of tanks that the 29th Armored Brigade was equipped with. As long as it was Shermans or Churchills I'm good to go. There was some very intese fighting on their front. At one time on the first day so many tanks were being hit that they thought the brigade was going to be wiped out. Thanks again. Panther Commander 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fernando Posted January 22, 2004 Share Posted January 22, 2004 It seems all British armoured divisions in Normandy but the 7th had Shermans in their armoured brigades and Cromwells in the armoured reconaissance regiments. The 7th had Cromwells instead of Shermans and the Churchills went to some independent armoured brigades (6th Guards, 31st and 34th Army) and the 79th Armoured Division (Crocodiles and AVRES. [ January 22, 2004, 06:29 AM: Message edited by: Fernando ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pete Posted January 22, 2004 Share Posted January 22, 2004 There was some very intese fighting on their front. At one time on the first day so many tanks were being hit that they thought the brigade was going to be wiped out Well i remember in Normandy there was a section of advance where they lost 400 tanks to get about 7 miles.Just full of AT and SP gun ambushes,AT teams, everything.Now thats a lot of armour wasted.Can't remember the exact details but i know there was a good lot of urban fighting (which we all know is not ideal for tanks). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Dorosh Posted January 22, 2004 Share Posted January 22, 2004 Originally posted by Little Pete: </font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />There was some very intese fighting on their front. At one time on the first day so many tanks were being hit that they thought the brigade was going to be wiped out Well i remember in Normandy there was a section of advance where they lost 400 tanks to get about 7 miles.Just full of AT and SP gun ambushes,AT teams, everything.Now thats a lot of armour wasted.Can't remember the exact details but i know there was a good lot of urban fighting (which we all know is not ideal for tanks). </font> 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kingfish Posted January 22, 2004 Share Posted January 22, 2004 Originally posted by Michael Dorosh: wherever it was that Currie got the VC (brain freeze...). Kingfish hits the defrost button St. Lambert-sur-Dives 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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