What gun? What tank?

[343KKT_Kintaro 355]

Hi. Please, do you recognise the following tank and gun ?

 

 

 

 

AND... YES, it is a screenshot taken from the game (server TF#3).

 

Thank you in advance.

 

 

[ACG_Smokejumper 275]

Cruiser Tank Mk IV and a Bofors gun.

 

https://www.militaryfactory.com/armor/detail.asp?armor_id=563

 

http://maltacommand.com/unit history RMA.html

Edited November 2, 2020 by ACG_Smokejumper

[343KKT_Kintaro 355]

Thank you !

 

I crashed with my Bf 109 E-3 close to this AAA position I was strafing. But this happened south of Dieppe, in France, with the French still fighting the Germans on June the 5th, 1940. Maybe the game lacks of French tanks and guns and this is why TF#3 chose to use that Cruiser and that Bofors. No worries, I'll not be too picky with that... or maybe the French really had Cruiser tanks and Boffors AAA guns...

[FurphyForum 181]

Displacement of the BEF (SW of Dieppe) is correct for the time period/location of events after the evacuation from Dunkirk, with their surrender - for those that were not Evac by sea (BEF and local French forces) around the 12 June 1940.

[343KKT_Kintaro 355]

4 minutes ago, FurphyForum said:

Displacement of the BEF (SW of Dieppe) is correct for the time period/location of events after the evacuation from Dunkirk, with their surrender - for those that were not Evac by sea (BEF and local French forces) around the 12 June 1940.

 

 

Do you mean that in 1940, from 5 June to 12 June, there still were British positions in continental France while Dunkirk was already taken by the Germans? Do you mean the very last evacuation of such British men and equipment happened south-east of Dunkirk in the very last days before the fall of France?

[FurphyForum 181]

2 hours ago, 343KKT_Kintaro said:

 

 

Do you mean that in 1940, from 5 June to 12 June, there still were British positions in continental France while Dunkirk was already taken by the Germans? Do you mean the very last evacuation of such British men and equipment happened south-east of Dunkirk in the very last days before the fall of France?

 

In answer to your questions, yes to your first query and it was in the south west to your second query. In short there was a second expeditionary force sent to France (a post war term - 2nd BEF) around early June 1940.

 

 

Do a search on-line, if you don't have book references. 

[Sokol1 2084]

Dunkirk evacuation is famous because was overall, a success.

 

But Calais, La Havre, St Nazaire, Brest, Nantes not.

 

Oficial evacuation of British troops from France end in June, 25.

But up to August groups left behind continue escaping though Mediterranean ports.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Expeditionary_Force_(World_War_II)#Second_BEF

 

"For every seven soldiers who escaped through Dunkirk, one man was left behind as a prisoner of war."

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Maybe the game lacks of French tanks and guns and this is why TF#3 chose to use that Cruiser and that Bofors. 

 

Indeed, the game have few French materiel, basically some French tanks captured by Germans.

Edited November 3, 2020 by Sokol1

[Yardstick 142]

RMS Lancastria sunk off St. Nazaire, 17th June 1940 while evacuating British troops - estimated losses as high as 6,500.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lancastria