Counter Attack at Villers Bocage by David Pentland. BAT197 After almost a year and

After almost a year and a half on a botanical mission

freezing fog and deep banks of drifting snow

F/Lt (later Wing Commander) J R Baldwin

Original painting by Tim Fisher

By the time the Allies were preparing to invade Okinawa

Counter Attack at Villers Bocage by David Pentland. BAT197 After almost a year andDHM860. 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 Yeomanry's regimental HQ Stuart and Cromwell tanks,