Digital Archive

Britain's new pillbox on wheels

Order Reproduction

Britain's new pillbox on wheels

Date10/17/1942

Names

Great Britain. Army (subject)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Unknown (photographer)

Format

Picture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: Britain's new pillbox on wheels. On land; as well as in the air; Britain has thousands upon thousands of fine; new fighting machines ready; waiting for the order to advance. One of the latest land monsters is this Churchill tank; so strongly armored that it can be used as a pillbox; yet at the same time it possesses unusual speed and formidable fire power of six-pounder guns.

Subject

Medium

Photographs

Language

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0002293F

Discover More

Tank cars and oil storage tanks, Port Lands

Tank cars and oil storage tanks, Port Lands

192-?

New kind of Cavalry prepares to give the Germans a new kind of headache

New kind of Cavalry prepares to give the Germans a new kind of headache

10/19/1939

Image shows oil storage tanks by the lake.

Oil storage tanks, Keating Street, Port Lands. Toronto, Ont.

192-?

Heading out: Grizzly and Cougar armored vehicles sit in the Canadian National Railway yard at Vaughan, north of Metro, waiting to be shipped to Canadian forces in the persian Gulf

Heading out: Grizzly and Cougar armored vehicles sit in the Canadian National Railway yard at Vaughan, north of Metro, waiting to be shipped to Canadian forces in the persian Gulf

1/21/1991

Heading out: Grizzly and Cougar armored vehicles sit in the Canadian National Railway yard at Vaughan, north of Metro, waiting to be shipped to Canadian forces in the Persian Gulf

Heading out: Grizzly and Cougar armored vehicles sit in the Canadian National Railway yard at Vaughan, north of Metro, waiting to be shipped to Canadian forces in the Persian Gulf

1/21/1991

1. Team work, team training and team spirit that make a tank crew behave with a single mind. That's how the men of Canada's army at Camp Borden are ha(...)

1. Team work, team training and team spirit that make a tank crew behave with a single mind. That's how the men of Canada's army at Camp Borden are ha(...)

7/25/1942

Private rand in Carden-Lloyd carrier

Private rand in Carden-Lloyd carrier

7/6/1940

D-Day veteran, this Canadian-built tank of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers was still in action at V-E-Day

D-Day veteran, this Canadian-built tank of the Sherbrooke Fusiliers was still in action at V-E-Day

6/22/1945

Ready . . aim . . fire. Soldiers at Camp Borden are being shot with light rays these days, A newly invented ray gun, with which Sgt. E. A. Williams he(...)

Ready . . aim . . fire. Soldiers at Camp Borden are being shot with light rays these days, A newly invented ray gun, with which Sgt. E. A. Williams he(...)

1/16/1941

Bullets of light, not lead, stream from the muzzle of this tank gun in battle practice at Camp Borden

Bullets of light, not lead, stream from the muzzle of this tank gun in battle practice at Camp Borden

4/25/1941

Explaining away a tank crash. A 24,000-ton Sherman tank of World War II vintage that had been on display at CNE accidentally gunned down a mail truck (...)

Explaining away a tank crash. A 24,000-ton Sherman tank of World War II vintage that had been on display at CNE accidentally gunned down a mail truck (...)

9/4/1974

Among the small airms included in platoon weapons is the Boys' anti-tank rifle, shown above, somewhat reminiscent of the old elephant gun. It fires a (...)

Among the small airms included in platoon weapons is the Boys' anti-tank rifle, shown above, somewhat reminiscent of the old elephant gun. It fires a (...)

8/9/1941