Tiger Day, Bovington Tank Museum, 14 September 2019

Photos by Andy Ross
 

Bundeswehr Leopard 1 main battle tank
 

US Army M4 Sherman "Fury" starred with Brad Pitt in the movie Fury
 

This British Army Churchill MK III served in Tunisia in 1943
 

Wehrmacht Zündapp KS750 rig with MG34 machine gun, alongside Andrea
 

Wehrmacht Zündapp KS750 Kriegselefant with MG34
 

Wehrmacht Sd Kfz 2 Kettenkraftrad HK101
 

Wehrmacht Volkswagen Type 82 Kübelwagen
 

US Army M16 half-track gun carriage for 4 × 0.5 cal AA unit
 

Andrea snaps two möchtegern Wehrmacht-Soldaten
 

The Bovington tank arena, ready for action
 

British Army Challenger 1 tank passing behind Wehrmacht Sturmgeschütz III assault gun "802"
 

Hell's Angels day out: Wehrmacht biker combos hit the trail
 

US Army M16 half-track "Meat chopper" passes StuG III assault gun with its 7.5 cm StuK 40 L/48 gun
 

British Army Matilda 2 infantry tank "The Princess Royal" passes StuG III assault gun
 

Enter the Tiger: Wehrmacht Sd Kfz 181 Panzerkampfwagen Tiger I Ausf E with 8.8 cm KwK 36 L/56 gun
 

Tiger "131" was captured by a British Army unit in Tunisia in 1943 and co-starred in the movie Fury
 

Tiger "131" was lightly damaged by three 6 pdr rounds and captured intact
 

The 690 hp Maybach HL230 diesel engine in the Tiger has a pleasing rumble when the tracks are not clanking
 

Tiger "131" advances straight at us, but the hatches are not battened down for combat
 

Here comes the Churchill Mk III, ready to deliver a 6 pdr round toward its target
 

Sd Kfz 141 Panzerkampfwagen III with 5 cm KwK 39 L/60 main gun
 

Panzer III advances toward us under the power of its 296 hp Maybach HL120 gasoline engine
 

M3 Stuart light tank in British 8th Army paint scheme
 

Stuart "Clementine" aims its 37 mm M6 main gun at us
 

Imperial Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go tank with modern Japanese flag
 

US Army M4 Sherman tank "Fury" with 76 mm M1 main gun
 

Sherman "Fury" and Tiger "131" are the vehicles that clashed in the movie Fury
 

Sherman "Fury" rides past StuG III "802" parked in front of Stuart "Clementine"
 

British Army Comet entered service in the last weeks of WW2 and was the first British tank to match the Tiger
 

Comet "Spud" with 600 hp Rolls-Royce Meteor engine and 77 mm HV (17 pdr) gun drives past Tiger "131"
 

Bundeswehr Leopard 1 made by Porsche and powered by an 820 hp MTU diesel shows its agility as it roars into view
 

Leopard 1 is armed with a British L7A3 105 mm main gun firing standard NATO rounds
 

British Army Challenger 1 main battle tank is armed with an L11A5 120 mm rifled gun
 

Challenger "Flying Fox" passes parked Panzer III
 

L2R: Me, my sister Helen, my bro-in-law Andrew, my nephew #3 Dane (photo by Andrea Blood)