Counter Attack at Villers Bocage by David Pentland. (APB) PER392 HMS Ark Royal III by

HMS Ark Royal III by Ivan Berryman

By the end of the war these two tank commanders had destroyed 103 and 106 enemy tanks respectively

making him the conflict's top Ace

Since his arrival on the battlefield in the late summer of 1916

Counter Attack at Villers Bocage by David Pentland. (APB) PER392 HMS Ark Royal III byDHM0860APB. 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 Yeomanrys regimental HQ Stuart and Cromwell