'Carnage and destruction', Falaise, 1944

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

Dead animals and burn-out vehicles at a road junction, the results of Allied attempts to encircle and destroy the German Seventh Army and Fifth Panzer Army trapped in the 'Falaise Pocket'.

According to the unit's war diary 3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) supported by the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, were in action near Falaise in mid-August 1944.

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