RECOVERY OF TANKS AFTER BATTLE [Allocated Title]

Men of the 100 Recovery Section, 6th Armoured Division at work after a battle on Goubellat Plain, Tunisia.

The section preparing to recover a Crusader and a Sherman tank. Close-up of men fixing a pulley. Close-up of a D8 Caterpillar tractor and two ten-ton recovery vehicles in position. A Crusader tank being pulled back on to the road. The final pulling out. Close-up of a member of the section drinking from a four gallon tin. Close-up of men fitting a rope to a D8 tractor. Panning shot from the reflection of the tank on the river to a Sherman tank and recovery vehicles in the background. Close-up of men pulling a rope from the recovery vehicle to fix on a 4-1 pulley. Close-up of a D8 tractor driver bringing the tractor into position. Panning shot of vehicles coupled together showing two ten-ton recovery vehicles and a D8 tractor with men fixing the last coupling to the tank. Men attempting to pull the Sherman tank back onto the road. Close-up of a tank track being burned by a acetylene burner. Another Sherman tank coupled to a D8 tractor pulling a disabled tank back onto the road. The disabled tank on the road.

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