3-023-504 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

Two British Tank Operators Looking Out of a Tank Turret, 1940. Second World War - after the loss of British Expeditionary Force equipment left at Dunkirk. 'But meanwhile, Britain was almost defenceless. Winston Churchill records an inspection of an army exercise in which there took part - an unheard-of number for those days - twelve [ie very few] tanks. Such were the forces to face imminent invasion'. From "Time To Remember - Standing Alone", 1940 ( Reel 1); documentary film about events of later months of 1940.