British tank crew removing wading trunking
Removing the deep wading stacks from their Sherman III, men from 3rd County of London Yeomanry after landing in Sicily.
Fantastic details of the stacks internal construction.
From the albums of Jimmy Sale.
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British tank drives onto beach
Assuming the photo numbering is anything to go by, following ‘Churchill’ off the LST is ‘Clive’, another Sherman III, from SHQ, C Squadron, 3CLY.
The squared off drive hoods tell us ‘Clive’ was built by Fisher.
#OTD 10th July 1943, Sicily
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British tank drives onto beach
Next in the series by Chetwyn, and ‘Churchill’, number 37, is up on the beach and we get a rare view of the tank from both sides!
Sherman III, SHQ C Squadron 3CLY.
#OTD 10th July 1943.
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British tank drives off Landing ship
‘Churchill’, a Sherman III with a deep wading stack fitted, from the SHQ of C Squadron 3rd County of London Yeomanry arrives in Sicily.
Sgt Leonard Chetwyn photographed the scene #OTD 10th July 1943.
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Knocked out German tanks in field
Here’s the previous image in the series with the original caption,
'Some of the seven Panther tanks knocked out by anti-tank guns South of
BRETTEVILLE-EN-ORGUILLEUSE. A perfect example of extremely bad German tank tactics.'
KSYM-SAL-18-060 from the Jimmy Sale collection. #3CLY
British officer kneeling down, looking across field with knocked out enemy tanks in background.
Major Oliver Woods MC, OC ‘A’ Squadron, 3rd County of London Yeomanry, 4th Armoured Brigade, ‘watching the enemy positions’
Do rather like this one from the Jimmy Sale collection.
KSYM-SAL-18-061 #3CLY #TheSharpshooters #4Armd
Concrete defences
‘A’ Squadron, 3rd CLY supported 5th Black Watch in the attack on DOUVRES,
#OTD 7th June 1944.
Part of the defences of the German Radar Station near DOUVRES.
From the Jimmy Sale Collection
KSYM-SAL-18-041
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View of the Gold Beach area with AFVs in foreground.
A view across King Beach from ‘A’ Squadron, 3rd County of London Yeomanry’s first concentration area, as the crews remove the wading trucking and waterproofing. #OTD 7th June 1944.
Note the Crusader Gun Tractors!
From the Jimmy Sale Collection KSYM-SAL-18-034
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British tanks moving along shoreline- Gold Beach
Shermans from ‘A’ Squadron, 3rd County of London Yeomanry, 4th Armoured Brigade, moving along the beach to the de-waterproofing area. #OTD 7th June 1944.
From the Jimmy Sale collection KSYM-SAL-18-035
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Both 3rd and 4th County of London Yeomanry, arrived in the Gold Beach area, #OTD 7th June 1944.
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British tanks lined up in residential street.
At least 3 Rams pictured here in Worthing, in front of the Sherman IIs that 3rd County of London Yeomanry would take to Normandy.
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Tank in woodlands with crew.
As well as Shermans, 3rd County of London Yeomanry used the Canadian built Ram for some training prior to D-Day.
‘1st Troop on the South Downs, 1944’ from the Jimmy Sale collection.
NAM 1975-03-63-16-228
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British tank crew preparing their tanks in residential street.
3rd County of London Yeomanry, in residential streets of Worthing, preparing their Sherman II for the invasion.
Wading trunking and track guards for stowage are worth noting.
From the Jimmy Sale collection.
KSYM-SAL-18-107
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Armoured recovery vehicle wades ashore.
More wading trunking, this time on an ARV based on a Sherman V, belonging to 3rd County of London Yeomanry.
7th June, #3CLY, MONT FLEURY as before.
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From the KSY Museum Collection.
Above rear view of Sherman wading ashore 7th June.
Wading trunking for the Sherman II (M4A1) seen here on 7th June 1944, as 3rd County of London Yeomanry arrive in the MONT FLEURY LA RIVIERE area.
Sherman II of Major Ollie Woods, A Sqn’s OC.
From the KSY Museum collection.
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British Sherman tank having engine serviced.
Angel of Death gets some TLC!
This is ‘AZRAEL’, the Sherman II from A Squadron HQ, 3CLY, commanded by then Capt Jimmy Sale.
‘100 hour engine check’ by the fitters on the Continental R975 radial.
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Sherman tank on gunnery range.
Sharpshooters in training!
A pair of heavily used Sherman V, on the gunnery range at Kirkcudbright.
From the 17th March 1944, 3rd CLY sent a party up to Scotland and used these tanks for training.
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