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	79th Armoured Division - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Division was further used during the battle for the Roer Triangle (Operation Blackcock) and the Rhine crossings, (Operation Plunder), to transport the assault troops and to re-supply.
		The 79th was raised as a conventional armoured division.
		The 79th Armoured Division was disbanded on 20 August 1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/79th_Armoured_Division (380 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: British 7th Armoured Division
		It was a regular division in the Middle East, designated the Mobile Division at first, renamed the Armoured Division (Egypt) in September 1939, and finally 7th Armoured Division on 16 February 1940.
		British armoured divisions Thomas Daniel Knox, 6th Earl of Ranfurly (1914 - 1988), known as Dan Ranfurly, was a Second Lieutenant in the British 7th Armoured Division, called the Desert Rats.
		It was a regular division in the Middle East, designated the Mobile Division at first, renamed the Armoured Division (Egypt) in September 1939, and finally 7th Armoured Division on 16th February 1940.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/British-7th-Armoured-Division (2429 words)

	Hobart's Funnies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hobart's Funnies were a number of unusually modified tanks operated during World War II by the 79th Armoured Division, or by specialists from the Royal Engineers.
		They were designed in the light of experiences during the Dieppe Raid to overcome the problems of the planned Invasion of Normandy and played a major part on the Commonwealth beaches during the landings.
		Armoured bulldozers continue to be used by the Israel Defense Forces and have been recently adopted by the US Marine Corps and the US Army in Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hobart's_Funnies (1295 words)

	D Day Tanks and countdown to 60th anniversary of D-Day from the Tank Museum Bovington
		Armoured Division vehicles and it soon became one of the best known, and most popular divisional signs among the Allied armies.
		With the forthcoming invasion of occupied France in mind it was decided to form a spearhead armoured division that would employ specially modified armoured vehicles that could smash though the hard crust of the German defences and prepare a way for regular forces to follow through.
		Armoured Brigade was already part of the division it was converted to Duplex Drive amphibious tanks.
	www.d-daytanks.org.uk /articles/beware.html (592 words)

	Avalanche Press
		The 7th Armoured began in Egypt as a collection of independent tank, motorized and armored car units created from the former Cairo Cavalry Brigade and known as the Mobile Force.
		It fought the Italian in the initial frontier battles and in the counter-offensive of November 1940.
		The division refitted during the early months of 1942, but was in the front lines again by May for the Gazala battles, as shown at the tactical level in Desert Rats and at the operational level in our new Gazala 1942 game.
	www.avalanchepress.com /7thArmoured.php (758 words)

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		The 4th Division and British 6th Armoured Division are almost brought to a halt in the Arno valley.
		The 80th Division is pushing southward between Lessay and Periers; while the 90th Division occupies Periers and crosses the river Taute.
		Marianas - On Guam, the 3rd Marine Division and the 77th Infantry Division are in pursuit of the Japanese towards the north of the island.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/academic/history/marshall/military/wwii/50.years.ago/jbd/jul1944.txt (10242 words)

	D-Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Compounding this problem was the allied intelligence failure to identify a nearly full-strength infantry division, the 352nd, directly behind the beach.
		A major factor in their success was that the British assault forces were lavishly equipped with armour and "Funnies" of the 79th Armoured Division.
		Fierce opposition from the 2lst Panzer and later the 12th SS Panzer division prevented the British from reaching Caen on the 6th.
	www.army.mil /d-day/divisions/invasionsites.html (1193 words)

	The Canadian Kangaroos
		The Canadian Armoured Corps, which provided most of the personnel for the Kangaroos as well as the basis for their administration and employment, was itself a relatively new service, having only been constituted just a few short years before.
		Accordingly, the Canadians of 1CACR were authorized the wearing of the 79th 'Bullshead' flash, and the same was painted on their vehicles, along with the unit designation "157" in white on a green-and-blue square.
		By now, 1CACR also had a sister regiment in the 79th Armoured Division, the British 49th Armoured Personnel Carrier Regiment (also equipped with Ram Kangaroos), and it was determined that, between the two, the assault requirements of 21st Army Group would be satisfied.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-armour/allied/kangaroos.htm (1608 words)

	Royal Engineers Museum - Biography - Major General Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart (1885-1967)
		Following the disaster at Dieppe in 1942, the need for specialist armoured equipment was realised and in April 1943 Hobart was given the task of raising, organising and training the 79th Armoured Division for the invasion of Europe in 1944.
		Despite opposition from various quarters, Hobart wanted the 79th Armoured Division to be made up entirely of armoured units and its success in Europe, followed by a similar formation structure in Italy, led to the total vindication of his philosophies.
		Much of the 79th Armoured Division landed in Normandy early on the morning of 6th June 1944 as a special assault team in support of the three infantry divisions on the British/Canadian sector.
	www.remuseum.org.uk /biography/rem_bio_hobart.htm (1172 words)

	Royal Engineers - 32 Engr Regt - History
		Four years later the 79th Armoured Division was formed which included proper Armoured Engineers with tracked vehicles with the necessary attachments to breach obstacles in order to establish bridgeheads during the Allied assault on Europe.
		Armoured Engineers were by now an essential part of the British Army’s order of battle and deployed to Kuwait on Operation GRANBY in 1990.
		Armoured Engineers deployed to Northern Ireland, for the first time, on a construction tour in 1994, and have subsequently deployed to Bosnia and Kosovo as part of the United Nations and NATO Forces in the Close Support role.
	www.army.mod.uk /royalengineers/org/32regt/history.htm (884 words)

	Deddington OnLine - General Hobart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Before the war he developed a new theory of mobile armoured warfare that found little favour with his superiors but was adopted enthusiastically by the new German Panzer commanders.
		In 1938 he was posted to Egypt, where he trained the 7th Armoured Division, which went on to find fame as the Desert Rats.
		After his reinstatement Hobart raised and trained a new armoured division (the 11th, the Black Bulls) but before he could command them in action he was reassigned to raise the 79th Armoured Division.
	www.deddington.org.uk /history/generalhobart.html (290 words)

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		After the disaster at Dieppe, the British had learned that infantry assault troops must be preceded and supported by armour specially adapted to meet the expected obstacles and defences on the Atlantic Wall.
		This was no ordinary armoured division, the task for Hobart and his men was to produce and be able to operate some of the most unusual pieces of military equipment ever seen.
		The two funnies pictured at the top of the page are an "Armoured Bulldozer" which is self explanatory and the "Bobbin" which was again a Churchill with a bobbin of canvas designed to lay a 10ft.
	www.6june44.freeserve.co.uk /page42.html (363 words)

	Percy Hobart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart (1885-19 February 1957) was a British military engineer and commander of the 79th Armoured Division during the World War II, and was responsible for many of the specialised armoured vehicles Hobarts Funnies' that took part in the invasion of Normandy.
		Under Hobart's leadership, the 79th assembled units of modified tank designs that were collectively nicknamed "Hobart's Funnies".
		The vehicles of the 79th had been offered to all of the forces taking part in the landings of Overlord, but the American forces declined and their only specialist vehicle was the amphibious Sherman DD.
	percy-hobart.ask.dyndns.dk (548 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - david scott 79th armoured division
		The 79th Armoured Division was raised as an ordinary armoured div in 1942.
		The Division was not used as a whole, but the vehicles in it were ‘lent out’ to ‘ordinary’ formations to help them eg cross a stream, clear a path through a minefield, or destroy pillboxes and strongpoints.
		The only menation of Enschede in the history of the 79th Armoured Div is on the 2nd April 1945 - it says that the 3rd Division took the town 'supported by A squadron 141 RAC' (The Buffs).
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/19/a4156319.shtml (331 words)

	Hobart's Funnies - Wild Bill Guarnere.Community
		The 79th was to be the biggest division in the world, and also the first all-armored division.
		Liddell Hart has called the 79th Armoured Division "the tactical key to victory." Because it was not a division that fought as a unit, but had its elements farmed out to the Allied armies wherever they were needed, the 79th has far less historical fame than most of the Allied divisions that stormed through Europe.
		By the time the Allies reached the Rhine, Hobart's 79th Division consisted of eight brigades and a total of 17 regiments, quadrupling the complement of armored and tracked vehicles on the establishment of any normal armored division.
	forums.wildbillguarnere.com /index.php?showtopic=3481 (7991 words)

	www.bills-bunker.de
		I have listed the ORBAT of the Divisions and Independent Armoured Brigades, with the main interest in the "teeth" elements, although some of the major support elements have been listed also.
		Independent armoured brigade, and during the battle British units, the 15th and 52nd Infantry Divisions and the 11th Armoured Division.
		The 79th did not operate as a division in the same sense as the other divisions.
	www.bills-bunker.de /66017.html?sessionidkey=sessionidval (377 words)

	"Hobart's Funnies" by Edward Willett
		Hobart's 79th Armoured Division, however, had better luck: 33 of the 40 Churchill tanks they launched almost three miles offshore of Sword Beach reached the shore.
		The amount of armour successfully landed was thus doubled over what might have been expected with traditional methods.
		One problem faced by armoured vehicles on the beaches of Normandy was areas of blue clay that could swallow vehicles.
	www.edwardwillett.com /Columns/hobartfunnies.htm (1350 words)

	D-Day 60th Anniversary: Hobart's Funnies - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, galleries, exhibitions ...
		In 1943 Hobart was asked to raise and command the 79th Armoured Division, a formation that ended the war in 1945 with nearly 2,000 specialised tanks and other armoured vehicles, a number that was four times the size of a normal division.
		The 79th Division was unique in that it never fought as a single unit.
		The 79th Division was also unique in that its units were among the few British formations to be routinely deployed with the US Army, reflecting the Americans decision not to create their own range of ‘funnies.’
	www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /trlout/TRA22135.html (1042 words)

	Military History Online - D-Day June 6, 1944
		The British 50th (Northumbrian) Infantry Division of the 2nd Army under Lieutenant General Miles Dempsey was to land at H-Hour + 1 (0730), seize Arromanches and drive inland to capture the road junction at Bayeux.
		Units of the German 716th Division and elements of the veteran 1st Battalion of the 352nd Division defended the coast in the beach houses along the coast with concentrations at Le Hamel and Le Riviere.
		Kampfgruppe Meyer, the 352nd's division reserve, had been in an ideal position to counterattack the landings at Gold Beach at the beginning of June 6th.
	www.militaryhistoryonline.com /wwii/dday/gold.aspx (502 words)

	Juno Beach 6th June 1944 - Canada on D Day
		They were to be assisted with specialist tanks from the British 79th (Armoured) Division to clear mines, and knock out pillboxes.
		The objective on D Day was firstly to land on the beaches and secure all the villages on the Divisional front.
		At Graye sur Mer is a good example of a Churchill AVRE belonging to 26th Assault Squadron RE, part of 79th (Armoured) Division attached to the 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade.
	battlefieldsww2.50megs.com /juno_beach.htm (267 words)

	1st Armoured Carrier Regiment
		On 28 August 1944, 1st Armoured Carrier Squadron was formed as a result of the use of Defrocked Priests during Operations Totalize and Tractable in August 1944 by 2nd Canadian Corps in the Normandy campaign.
		On 21 December 1944 the Regiment was assigned to 31st Armoured Brigade of British 79th Armoured Division which would act as the parent formation for both it and British 49th Armoured Personnel Carrier Regiment which was organized along similar lines as the Canadian unit.
		The 1st Canadian Armoured Carrier Regiment was an ad hoc unit formed in answer to tactical requirements encountered by 1st Canadian Army in the Normandy campaign.
	www.rcaca.org /includes/r-1ACR.asp (224 words)

	Boulogne, 1944 - www.canadiansoldiers.com
		The 3rd Canadian Infantry Division was tasked with taking Bolougne in Sep 1944.
		The division lacked naval gunfire support but did have help from two 14-inch and two 15-inch British guns firing from across the English Channel from Dover; these guns shelled coastal positions in the Calais-Cap Gris Nez area, preventing massive 16-inch German guns up the coast from Bolougne in disrupting the Canadian attack.
		The port facilities, so desperately needed to ease Allied logistical concerns (with armies streaming towards the German border, their supplies were still being drawn through the Normandy beachhead), had been heavily damaged and were useless as long as German batteries at Cap Gris Nez and Calais - equally formidable - remained in operation.
	canadiansoldiers.com /mediawiki-1.5.5/index.php?title=Boulogne,_1944 (253 words)

	Military Library Research Service Ltd - The Characteristics and Tactical Employment of Specialised Armour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		The 'funnies' of the 79th Armoured Division in World War II - crabs, flails, crocodiles and others.
		This is a very rare document indeed, and gives the real details on flame throwing tanks, bridge-layers, flails and DD tanks, together with their tactical use.
		79th Armoured Division was set up to give armoured support to the D-Day landings, and many modified tanks were created to ease the problems of troops landing against a well- entrenched enemy on a foreign shore.
	www.mlrsbooks.co.uk /bookstore/view.php/doc310.html (220 words)

	Hobart's Funnies - Wikimedia Commons
		Hobart's Funnies were a number of unusually modified tanks operated by the 79th Armoured Division, with specialists from the Royal Engineers.
		Major General Sir Percy Cleghorn Stanley Hobart commander of 79th Armoured Division, who was made responsible in March 1943 for the development of specialised armoured vehicles, known as 'Hobart's Funnies', to spearhead the assault phase of the invasion
		Churchill AVRE carpet-layer with bobbin, 79th Armoured Division, March/April 1944
	commons.wikimedia.org /wiki/Hobart's_Funnies (473 words)

	79th Armoured Division [British] 1942-1945
		In April 1943 the division was reorganized and the composition changed.
		The role of the division was now to carry out the development of all specialized armour, and technique, and for advising on its use.
		The Funnies : the 79th Armoured Division and its specialised equipment (Hemel Hempstead : Model and Allied Publications, 1974) x, 131 p.
	www.unithistories.com /units_british/79ArmdDiv.htm (282 words)

	Legend Productions
		Assembly is easy to follow, instructions use clear colour photos showing the parts layout followed by a step by step study of the model being built detailing the parts to be removed from the original kit and the fitting of the new items.
		Etched brass parts are used to make the framework which supported the track between the idler and the main panniers, with other brass parts for the outer edge of the front mud chutes.
		A history of the 79th Armoured Division but may be hard to find these days.
	www.perthmilitarymodelling.com /reviews/vehicles/legend/lf1063.htm (902 words)

	Iago's Lair: World War Two Wargames Scenarios (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
		These are not scenarios suitable for competition gaming but are examples of a virtually unknown series of combats at the end of the war.
		These scenarios feature the specialised armour of the 79th Armoured Division, Hobart's "Funnies", in action in North West Europe in 1944-1945.
		Much of the detail is taken from the rare "Story of the 79th Armoured Division" published in Hamburg in July 1945, which features some detailed tactical maps that illustrate individual emplaced weapons.
	www.nothing-but.net.nz /ww2scen.html (380 words)

	History Bookshop.com: From Normandy to the Ruhr
		Organized in France in March, 1944 from elements of the 16th Panzer-Grenadier Division and the 179th Reserve Panzer Division, the 116th Panzer Division was one of the relatively rare German armoured formations that fought exclusively on the Western Front.
		Beyond the tactical decisions - and consequences of those decisions in the deadly and unforgiving arena of WWII armoured combat - the author also explains the institutional and political influences on his division's leadership.
		He details the intrigue behind his Division Commander's relief (twice in two months!) and the impact of the accompanying turbulence on the division in combat.
	www.historybookshop.com /book-template.asp?isbn=0966638972 (453 words)

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