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    CHURCHILL TANK

    Jan 21, 2021 3 minutes
    WORDS MICHAEL E HASKEW
    “DURING THE COURSE OF WORLD WAR II, NEARLY 7,400 CHURCHILL TANKS WERE PRODUCED”

    Perhaps the most versatile and hence successful Allied tank of World War II, the Churchill was conceived in the late-1930s as an instrument of trench warfare as prosecuted during the Great War a generation earlier. A potential replacement for the Matilda II and Valentine series, the Churchill was designated an infantry tank: it was heavy and slow to keep pace with advancing foot soldiers

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