Armoured Warfare and the Fall of France 1940

A visual account of the fall of France during World War II, featuring images of tanks and other armoured vehicles used by belligerents. At 21:00 on 9 May 1940, Codeword Danzig was issued alerting Adolf Hitler’s airborne troops that they were about to spearhead an attack on Belgium and the Netherlands. The following day his blitzkrieg rolled forward striking the British Expeditionary Force and the French armies in Belgium and in northern France at Sedan. The desperate attempts of the allied armie