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Inside a Landing Ship Tank, 1943 (c)

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

Sherman tanks on board a Landing Ship Tank (LST).

3rd County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), having been withdrawn to Egypt after a gruelling campaign with German and Italian forces in Libya, reorganised, re-equipped and trained for Operation HUSKY, the assault on the island of Sicily. The unit sailed from Alexandria to Tripoli and then on to Sicily in July 1943.

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. 1975-03-63-13-30

Copyright/Ownership

National Army Museum Copyright

Location

National Army Museum, Study collection

Object URL

https://collection.nam.ac.uk/detail.php?acc=1975-03-63-13-30