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Photograph: "A" Squadron, and infantry of the Black Watch (51st Highland Division) clearing enemy snipers from the woods west of the Radar Station, 7 June 1944 Photograph from an album containing 210 photographs compiled by Major W H J Sale, MC, 3rd/4th County of London Yeomanry (Sharpshooters) The Sharpshooters’ war diary records ‘A’ Squadron’s tanks supporting an attack by the 5th Black Watch and Canadian forces on Douvres Radar Station on the evening of the 7 June 1944. ‘A’ Squadron tanks and Churchill Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE) armed with petard mortars attacked the strongpoint but withdrew after losing a number of vehicles to mines and anti-tank fire. The unit war diary records, ‘It was necessary to obtain possession of a wood West of Douvres as this was the only point of observation on the town’. The diary also records incidents of friendly fire between the Black Watch and the Canadian North Shore Regiment during this action. Associated with Operation OVERLORD, World War Two, North West Europe (1944-1945).

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