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Object description
Armour and supplies for the 1st Polish Armoured Division move up to their assembly area south-east of Caen prior to taking part in Phase II of 2nd Canadian Corps' Operation "Totalise", an offensive aimed at piercing the 1st SS Panzer Korps' front astride the N158 highway and ultimately capturing Falaise.
Full description
Sherman tanks serving with the recently-landed 1st Polish Armoured Division's 1st Armoured Regiment move up to their assembly area in the flat wheatfields beyond Cormelles in the early morning of August 8th 1944. A Polish military policeman directs a line of Fordson three-tonners carrying supplies for the 1st Armoured Regiment to its destination. A calvary, a common sight for Allied troops travelling through the villages and cross-roads of Normandy, is a silent witness to the flow of military traffic to the front.
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35mm
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