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Old 12-01-23, 16:05
Joe Long Joe Long is offline
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Default Strathconas? in Groningen?

Hi

Found this film on Groningen in WW2.

https://www.filmbankgroningen.nl/zoeken/bevrijding
Fragment 151 van 249 - AV0119 Groningen in oorlogstijd 1940-1945
J.W. van Dam,1940-1945
From 48:37 to 49:19 there are a number of Canadian tanks (AoS = 51, on with AoS = 50) rounding a corner in a city.

AoS = 51 so they could be 6 CAR 1st Hussars, or 21 CAR GGFG, or 2 CAR LdSH

Name of one tank STRATHCONA suggests they are LdSH.

at 48:40 tank SPARTAN with WD number T228955 suggests LdSH as a tank with this number was turned in at end of war, from the 2CAR (ref Cdn Heritage T-12742 p624)

at 49:12 tank ALDER II or III with WD number T288991 suggests LdSH as a tank with this number was turned in at end of war, from the 2CAR (ref Cdn Heritage T-12742 p592)

at 49:20 tank ALMOND IV with WD number T232577 suggests LdSH as a tank with this number was turned in at end of war, from the 2CAR (ref Cdn Heritage T-12742 p592)


I am trying to determine the city.

Here are some screenshots:
As the tanks turn the corner they pass some buildings, then a Bakkerij Automatiek, and next to it an Albino store.

My Dutch isn;t very good, but I was able to determine that Albino had about a hundred stores in the northern Netherlands provinces, but got bought out in the late 1940s.

Appreciate if anyone can identify the city, and even the street!

Thanks

Peter Williams
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LdSH 1.jpg   LdSH 2.jpg   LdSH 3.jpg   LdSH 4.jpg  
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