#eighth army

[redarmyscreaming]

The only known photograph of a British Covenanter tank (middle, far right), in Tunisia, taken in March 1943

[carbone14]

Général Montgomery à son quartier général de la 8th Army – Campagne d'Italie – Termoli – Italie – 9 novembre 1943

Photographe : Sergent Bourne - No. 2 Army Film and Photo Section, Army Film and Photographic Unit

©Imperial War Museums - NA 8536

[all-action-all-picture]

Airfix New Models File - The British Eighth Army (The Desert Rats). As explained in the ad this was a construction kit and not the well-known plastic figure range that was also produced by Airfix in 'HO/OO' and 1/32nd scale.

[theworldatwar]

Troops from China’s Eighth Route Army pose for a photograph showing off loot captured in a series of successful raids against the Japanese in North China - December 1940.

[redarmyscreaming]

An Officer adjusts to life in the Desert The crew of a Crusader.

[defensenows]

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“As British Launch Attack in Libya,” Sherbrooke Daily Record. December 6, 1941. Page 01. “In the top picture R.A.F. bombers are seen making a direct hit on enemy barracks near Mellaha, Tripolitania, in an attack carried out almost at roof level. In the corner (right) can be seen the tail fin of the aircraft from which this picture was taken. It was the first photograph to come out of the Libyan battle zone since the present British offensive started. At right a Bren gun-carrier crashes through barbed-wire entanglements in Libya on its way into the area of conflict.”

[vintageindianclothing]

Extract from DF Karaka’s Chungking Diary (1942), an account of the Chinese wartime experience contrasted with the Indian situation. 

Karaka records that Kung Peng who had been in the hospital for five months after being with the Eighth Army was full of vitality, spoke English well and that she was attempting a translation of Grapes of Wrath during her hospital stay: Elsewhere he finds that the women of Chungking* are dressed in sombre dark blue and have black shiny hair and a high colour in their cheeks (very similar to Marseilles women according to Karaka) and that now and then in Chungking you could spot rouged modern Chinese girls in an adaptation of the traditional gown and high heeled slippers.

*now Chongqing, in 1942 the city was the base of the Kuomintang.