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Old 22-11-08, 22:31
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Originally Posted by Kuno View Post
Colleagues; the area where this picture has been taken is obviously in the Northern part of Tunisia - would presume around Zaghouan. I actually doubt that under the climatic conditions there, the wreackage would still look like it does on above picture.

My opinion was that this is a wartime color photograph and not a recent discovery of a wreck in Tunisia.

The holder of the copyright of the picture is "Time Life Picturey / Gettyimages" ;-)
According to the TIME photographic archives, this picture was taken in Tunesia in April 1943...

http://images.google.com/hosted/life...%3Dnl%26sa%3DN

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