Counter Attack at Villers Bocage by David Pentland. BAT197

Counter Attack at Villers Bocage by David Pentland. BAT197DHM860. Counter Attack at Villers Bocage by David Pentland. A handful of Tigers from 2nd Kompanie SS Schwere Panzer Abteilung 101 halted the advance of the British 7th Armoured Division, The Desert Rats, outside the little Norman village of Villers Bocage. Prowling through the streets of the village, the solitary tank of Hauptsturmfuhrer Michael Wittmann knocked out most of the 4th County of London Yeomanry's regimental HQ Stuart and Cromwell tanks,

darkening skies heralded the arrival of more snow

By the time the Allies were preparing to invade Okinawa

After almost a year and a half on a botanical mission

During the Battle of Jutland

It is shown with red upper wing surfaces

Original painting by Tim Fisher

Three of 23 Sqn's FB

F/Lt (later Wing Commander) J R Baldwin

Then Naik Darwan Singh Negi went ahead of his section

the nearest aircraft being that of Zugsfuhrer F Korty-Lalitz

and is shown here in his Fokker E

freezing fog and deep banks of drifting snow