Time To Saddle Up
rows of C-47 aircraft wait for their loads |
"A Company Command Post, 29 June '44
[l-r] Brinkley*, Radio Operator; A.B. Cannon, Runner; 1st Sgt Frank
Taylor; & Capt "Jock" Adams in foreground"
*NOTE: name may be misspelling for Brickley |
"Dead German
from a bicycle platoon, Normandy, June 44" |
"All's
Well" Sherman Tank
rolls past a surgeon/dentist office with Red Cross banner. (Note
bicycle on rear of tank). Second shop is probably an odd
jobs-carpentry.
After seeing the earlier post of this page, Niels Henkemans wrote
saying,
"I figured you and Hank’s family might find it interesting to know the Sherman
belonged to A Company 746th Tank Battalion (the
battalion number might be on the back of the tank
Unfortunately the tank does not show it’s number so
we can’t say what platoon it belonged to. Personally
I’m expecting a link with another of their tanks
‘All American’, which has the exact same style of
letters."
UPDATE-1: Niels wrote again a few months later and said: "I finally took the time
to identify the location of the Sherman photograph. It
indeed is Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte. The tank is moving
east towards the centre of the town (it is driving on
the main street running west out of the town). Combined
with information from the After Action Report, this
suggests the date is probably 17 June."
UPDATE-2: Claude Demeester, of France, provided a link
to Google Maps which shows
this location
today. |
Three
Floors Exposed
in this building could have been from a tank or cannon round |
Bomb Damages
left this street strewn with rubble
|
Intact
Spire
but the rest of the church is in ruins
|
Church Facades
are all that is left here |
German
Prisoners
under guard by a single man |
Helping
Hands
helping themselves to some fresh milk.
Well, the cows needed milking anyway so the farmer must have appreciated
it ... right?
|
|