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Ready to move from WORTHING to the final concentration area, stages 1 and 2 of waterproofing complete
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Accession Number

NAM.1975-03-63-18-3

Description

Photograph: Ready to move from WORTHING to the final concentration area, stages 1 and 2 of waterproofing complete. Shows a residential street with a line of tanks getting ready to move on. Photograph from an album containing 210 photographs compiled by Maj Wilfred Herbert James Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters), 1944. Prior to D-Day, personnel from 3rd County of London Yeomanry waterproof their vehicles before embarkation for Normandy. In the foreground is a turret-less Sherman Armoured Recovery Vehicle (ARV), fitted with a temporary superstructure and exhaust and air intakes stacks to protect it during deep water wading. Behind the ARV is a M3 half-track. Associated with Operation OVERLORD, World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945), 1944.

Campaigns

World War Two, Home Front (1939-1945)

Events

OVERLORD, Operation, 1944 (World War Two, North West Europe 1944-1945)