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Re: Matilda II ideas and Inspirations
« Reply #75 on: January 16, 2020, 01:37:28 AM »
Is there a good book available on the Matilda II tank?
Not terribly new ones, I don't think.

There is an old Armour in Profile 15 from the 60s.
There is Bryan Perrett's Armour in Action 2: Matilda (Hardcover, ISBN 9780711004054 Publisher: Ian Allen, 1973).
Infantry Tank Mk I/Ii Matilda Militaria 418 Janusz Ledwoch British Infantry Tank
Modelling The Matilda Infantry Tank (Osprey Modelling #5) M. Bannerman
The Matilda Infantry Tank in Australian Service Museum Ordnance Special Number 13 Paul Handel

That's all I could find. They vary in  usefulness depending on what you want them for.

Paul

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Re: Matilda II ideas and Inspirations
« Reply #76 on: June 12, 2023, 03:12:27 AM »
Short video on the specialized infantry support Matilda tanks developed by the RAAC during WW2 to fight in the jungles of the SWPA:

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Re: Matilda II ideas and Inspirations
« Reply #77 on: June 12, 2023, 07:50:11 AM »
Is there a good book available on the Matilda II tank?

I have the New Vanguard book (like the Osprey series) on the Matilda by David Fletcher & Peter Sarson.  Covers the Mk.1 through to the engineering versions. :smiley:

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Re: Matilda II ideas and Inspirations
« Reply #78 on: June 12, 2023, 07:54:24 AM »
I suppose there is also this:

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Re: Matilda II ideas and Inspirations
« Reply #79 on: June 12, 2023, 07:55:27 AM »
And this:

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Re: Matilda II ideas and Inspirations
« Reply #80 on: June 12, 2023, 09:53:23 AM »
Some interesting reading:  https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/Australia/aus_matilda

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Thanks for sharing GTX

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Re: Matilda II ideas and Inspirations
« Reply #81 on: June 13, 2023, 12:00:40 PM »
I suppose there is also this:



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