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[edit] Beschreibung

  • Collection Title: WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION
  • Collection No.: 4700-29
  • Description: Knocked-out Cromwell observation post tank, commanded by Captain Paddy Victory of 5th Royal Horse Artillery, 7th Armoured Division, in Villers-Bocage, 5 August 1944. Captain Victory had attempted to do a neutral turn to escape more quickly, however a loose large paving slab jammed the track and essentially immobilised the tank. [1]

[edit] Licensing

Public domain This artistic work created by the United Kingdom Government is in the public domain

This is because it is one of the following:

  1. It is a photograph created by the United Kingdom Government and taken prior to 1 June 1957; or
  2. It is a photograph or an engraving created by the United Kingdom Government and commercially published prior to 1958; or
  3. It is an artistic work other than a photograph or engraving (e.g. a painting) which was created by the United Kingdom Government prior to 1958.

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[edit] References

  1. ↑ Forty, George (2004). Villers Bocage, p.66, Sutton Publishing.

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current14:12, 17 December 2005350×327 (42 KB)John N. (* Collection Title: WAR OFFICE SECOND WORLD WAR OFFICIAL COLLECTION * Collection No.: 4700-29 * Description: Knocked-out Cromwell observation post tank, commanded by Captain Paddy Victory of 5th Royal Horse Artillery, 7th Armoured Division, in Villers-Boc)
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