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Captured Italian self-propelled guns on the Carlentini Road, Sicily, July 1943

Photograph by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, Sicily, 1943.

Members of 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) inspect captured Italian Semovente 47/32 self-propelled guns during the regiment's drive on Lentini in support of 15th Infantry Brigade in July 1943. The Semovente 47/32 was introduced in 1941 but proved increasingly inferior to the Allied armour it was pitted against.

From an album containing 241 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 1975-03-63-13-182

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum Copyright

Location

National Army Museum, Study collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1975-03-63-13-182