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The 6th Guards Tank Brigade was an armoured brigade of the British Army during the Second World War formed from the Foot Guards in 1941 as the 6th Guards Armoured Brigade when the United Kingdom was under the threat of invasion and more armoured formations were required. ==History== Permission was granted from King George VI and the Colonels of the Regiments involved and over the summer of 1941, the Infantry of the Guards converted into an armoured formation and so the Guards Armoured Division was formed which contained the 5th Guards Armoured Brigade and the 6th Guards Armoured Brigade.〔The Guards Divisions 1914 – 45 By Mike Chappell,p 28〕 In 1942 all British armoured divisions were reorganised to have one armoured brigade and one motor brigade. The 6th Guards Armoured became an independent tank brigade being renamed as the 6th Guards Tank Brigade. The brigade now equipped with the Churchill tank,〔6th Guards Tank Brigade: The Story of Guardsmen in Churchill Tanks 〕 served in the North West Europe Campaign landing in Normandy on 20 July 1944. Correspondence in Winston Churchill's ''The Second World War'' (Volume V: Closing the Ring, Annex C) in April 1944 appears to indicate there was consideration of breaking the brigade up and making its personnel available as replacements for other army formations. Churchill was opposed to this, and nothing appears to have been done.〔Winston Churchill, The Second World War: Volume V: Closing the Ring, Reprint Society, London, 1954 (Hardback), Appendix C, notes of 4 April 1944, 4 April 1944, and 9 April 1944, pages 541-542.〕 The brigade went on to take part in the Battle of Normandy in Operation Bluecoat,〔British Armour in the Normandy Campaign 1944 By John Buckley,p 101〕 Operation Veritable finally ending the war at Lübeck on the Baltic Sea where they captured a U-boat. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「6th Guards Tank Brigade (United Kingdom)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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