Engineering:List of named tanks

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Throughout the history of armored warfare, tankers have been known to give nicknames to their tanks.[1] This is a list of named tanks.

Canada

Churchill Oke

M4A2 Sherman

M4(105)

  • Cougar

People's Republic of China

Type 97 ShinHōtō Chi-Ha medium tank

Finland

Renault FT

  • Koiras[4]
  • Naaras

T-50 tank

KV-1

France

Char B1

  • Rhin (Formerly Flandres)
  • Rhône

Char B1 Bis

  • Eure

Char 2C

  • Poitou
  • Provence
  • Picardie
  • Alsace
  • Bretagne
  • Touraine
  • Anjou
  • Normandie (Later renamed Lorraine)
  • Berry
  • Champagne

German Empire

Mephisto on display in Australia

A7V

  • Mephisto
  • Gretchen[9]
  • Faust
  • Schnuck
  • Baden I
  • Cyklop (later renamed Imperator)
  • Siegfried
  • Alter Fritz
  • Lotti
  • Hagen
  • Nixe
  • Nixe II
  • Heiland
  • Elfriede
  • Bulle (later renamed Adalbert)
  • Herkules
  • Wotan
  • Prinz Oskar

Nazi Germany

Tiger I

Greece

L3/33

Russia

T-80BV

  • Alyosha

T-72B3 obr.2022

  • Tsar

Soviet Union

T-34

  • Fighting Girlfriend

Spain

Renault FT

  • INFANTERIA Nº10[13]

United Kingdom

A British Matilda Mk II named "Glenorchy" of Major K.P. Harris, MC, commander of 'D' Squadron, 7th Royal Tank Regiment during Operation Compass displaying an Italian flag captured at Tobruk, 24 January 1941

Mark IV tank

Matilda II

  • Glenorchy

Sexton MK.II

  • Culloden
  • Exterminator
  • Vindictive

United States of America

T26E3 nicknamed Fireball, knocked out by a Tiger I in an ambush.

M4 Sherman

M4A1(76)W

  • IN THE MOOD

M26 Pershing

  • Eagle 7
  • Fireball

M48 Patton

  • The Grim Reaper

References

  1. ↑ "Naming Tanks in the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps". 14 March 2023. https://rusi-ns.ca/naming_tanks/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "www.canadiansoldiers.com". https://www.canadiansoldiers.com/vehicles/flamethrowers/oke.htm. 
  3. ↑ "Tank Ace began stellar career at Normandy". The Globe and Mail. 23 April 2015. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/tank-ace-captain-radley-walters-began-stellar-career-at-normandy/article24093726/. 
  4. ↑ Moore, Craig (4 August 2016). "Renault FT in Finnish Service". https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/finland/renault-ft-finland/. 
  5. ↑ "Republic of Finland (WW2)". 9 May 2018. https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww2/finland/. 
  6. ↑ ""Panssarimuseo KV-1 m 1942 information"". https://www.panssarimuseo.fi/img/image.php?id=535463. 
  7. ↑ ""Panssarimuseo KV-1 m 1941 information"". https://www.panssarimuseo.fi/img/image.php?id=535460. 
  8. ↑ ""Parola Armour Museum"". https://www.panssarimuseo.fi/. 
  9. ↑ "Sturmpanzerwagen A7V". 30 December 2016. https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/ww1/germany/sturmpanzerwagen_a7v.php. 
  10. ↑ "Tiger I - the Tank Museum - Tiger 131". http://tankmuseum.org/tank-nuts/tank-collection/tiger-i. 
  11. ↑ "x.com". https://twitter.com/e_amyna/status/1342188195669307393. 
  12. ↑ Βασιλείου, Στάθης. "Ο τορπιλισμός του «Έλλη» (15 Αυγούστου 1940)". https://www.historical-quest.com/112-archive/20os-aionas-ellada/83-o-torpilismos-tou-elli.html. 
  13. ↑ Montes, Gareth Lynn (19 January 2022). "Renault FT in the Service of the Kingdom of Spain". https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/renault-ft-in-the-service-of-the-kingdom-of-spain/. 
  14. ↑ "The Britannia, the British Tank which saw service in Flanders and took part in the Liberty Loan parade on Fifth Avenue, cruising a limousine in the streets of Toronto, Canada. During the recent victory loan parade.". New York Times: p. 10. December 2, 1917. ISSN 1553-8095. OCLC 1645522. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn78004456/1917-12-02/ed-1/?sp=10&r=0.175,0.609,0.666,0.311,0. 
  15. ↑ "Trapped: The Story of Fray Bentos". 5 February 2021. https://tankmuseum.org/article/trapped_story_of_fray_bentos. 



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