Operation Infatuate II: Sherman tanks at Westkapelle

[Jakko Westerbeke]

I’ve now found the other photos I have of this LVT:

LVT Vrouwenpolder 1 (col. J.C. van Winkelen).jpgLVT Vrouwenpolder 2 (col. J.C. van Winkelen).jpg

These are scans of photos from the collection of local amateur historian J.C. van Winkelen; since he had multiple copies of many photos like these, I suspect some enterprising photographer made and sold them in the 1940s — or perhaps he took the photos himself and printed a bunch of them, of course. On the back of one of these, he had written:

LVT Vrouwenpolder uitleg (col. J.C. van Winkelen).jpg

That is:—

Vrouwenpolder 1945
(gedeeltelijk door personeel van RAF
gedemonteerd, voor reparatie van
een ander [sic] Buffalo op het dorp)

In English:

Vrouwenpolder 1945
(partially disassembled by RAF personnel,
to repair another Buffalo in the village)