Here’s What You Need to Remember: The Matilda’s demise in North Africa was caused by attrition, as destroyed hulls were replaced by other tanks, rather than being directly replaced with new Matildas.

In June 1941, confident after earlier victories in North Africa, British forces launched Operation Battleaxe to break the ...

Here’s What You Need to Know: The Matilda tank was one of the few tanks respected by German tankers. Here’s why. Infantry Support The Matilda II, or just Matilda as... Here’s What You Need to Remember ...

Early in the North African campaign, the Matilda II rolled through Axis lines with near-total immunity, its armor shrugging off most German and Italian weapons. But at Hellfire Pass in 1941, Rommel’s ...

IT STARTED as a rumour more than two decades ago — a tank used during World War 11 languishing in a paddock somewhere in the Southen Highlands. Historians believed only two of the Matilda tanks, used ...