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Old 24-10-23, 17:02
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When first seeing the photo shot at Westkapelle, I initially thought that the fading of the turret number outline had been caused by seawater erosion, but it looks like it thankfully occurred much earlier, thereby enabling us to identify No.20 as the tank on the Canadian photo.
Nice find Michel!
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Good find Also interesting to see it has the full-bicycle-type flail chains there, while in the Westkapelle photo the type with balls on the ends is in the rack on the side.
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