Jimmy Sales kriegwagen', encampment of British Sherman tanks in Italy, 1943

Photograph by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), World War Two, Italy, 1943.

A bivouac pitched around a Sherman tank in an Italian orchard. The tank crew have taken the opportunity to wash and dry their clothes as well as indulging in recreational activities involving a guitar and bottles of wine. A trophy of the campaign in Italy, a Nazi swastika flag, is draped on their tank.

From a photograph album containing 246 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).