Cruiser Mk VIII Centaur/Cromwell Photographs


A27M Cromwell tank on gunnery trials, England, United Kingdom, circa early 1943	Newly constructed Centaur tanks in a staging area in Slough near London, United Kingdom, before being shipped to field units, Mar 1943	LST unloading a Cromwell tank onto Sword beach, Normandy, France, 7 Jun 1944	Vehicles of 4th County of London Yeomanry, UK 7th Armored Division moving inland from Gold Beach, Normandy, France, 7 Jun 1944; note Cromwell tank leading the column

One of the 250 armored bulldozer variant of Cruiser Mk VII Centaur tank, date unknown; also one of the 'Hobart's Funnies'	A Cromwell tank and jeep of 10 PSK, Polish 1st Armored Division passing an abandoned German PaK 43/41 gun during Operation Totalize, France, 8 Aug 1944	Cromwell tanks of Guard's Armoured Division, British XXX Corps driving along 'Hell's Highway' toward Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 20 Sep 1944	A Cromwell tank guarding a bridge over the Elbe River, Hamburg, Germany, 3 May 1945

Cromwell tanks of British 7th Armored Division, Hamburg, Germany, 3 May 1945	Cromwell tank crew of C Squadron, 5th Royal Tank Regiment in Hamburg, Germany, 4 May 1945; the man sitting on the tank was a Russian former POW who had been fighting alongside the crew