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'Captured enemy guns and re-captured British Sherman 17-pounder tanks taken by the 44th RTR near Trun', Normandy, 1944

Photograph compiled by Major Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry, World War Two, North West Europe, 1944.

Two Sherman tanks flank a recaptured British Sherman Firefly with abandoned German artillery in the foreground. The Firefly in the centre carries German markings and was the subject of a number of German propaganda photographs.

From an album containing 211 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters).

NAM Accession Number

NAM. 1975-03-63-19-104

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum Copyright

Location

National Army Museum, Study collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1975-03-63-19-104