Interested in the Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU), military history, wartime art, photography. Random other reposts. WHW IC member. Substack https://substack.com/@insharpfocus. Also on Twitter. (Profile IWM E11085)
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Courseulles Beach, by Stephen Bone, 1944.
IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 5792)
Carriers, motorcycles, jeeps and lorries of (I think) the divisional machine gun battalion of The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers wait to cross a bridge over the River Souleuvre in their advance towards Vire, 2 August 1944.
IWM (B 8490), Sgt Laing, AFPU
Extinguishing Incendiary Bombs in front of the Officers' Mess, 1941, by L.E.D. Keene, 1941.
IWM (Art.IWM ART LD 1737)
Tanks, by William Orpen, 1917.
IWM (Art.IWM ART 3035)
A Coast Defence: an 18-pounder anti-aircraft gun, Tyneside, 1917, by John Lavery, 1917.
IWM (Art.IWM ART 1263)
Sunderland, by Colin Colahan, 1942.
AWM ART22287
Waterloo Station plaque.
I recently posted a link to my Substack article on Sgt Norman Clague, who was killed on 12 June 1944. Here I'm re-sharing my article of the AFPU at Bréville the following day, 82 years ago today.
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