Counter Attack at Villers Bocage by David Pentland. (D) SQN331 Keyes was posthumously awarded the

Keyes was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross

Phantom Thunder by Philip West

piloted by Fl Lt P W Rabone (9 victories)

Overhead a tenacious Junkers JI artillery spotter dogs their tracks

Counter Attack at Villers Bocage by David Pentland. (D) SQN331 Keyes was posthumously awarded theDHM0860D. 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 tanks,