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[sapper740]

Originally posted by Geoff Winnington-Ball
Don't think so, Derek... I've seen a bigger copy of this famous pic, and there is a lot of damage to the right-side bogies. My guess is that he clipped a mine that was big enough to flip him right over. Unfortunately, reading of similar incidents, there's almost no chance the crew survived.

BTW, that's a Queen's Own Rifles' carrier IIRC, on NAN WHITE Beach near Bernières-sur-Mer.

Poor S.O.B.s probably didn't even know what hit them. The Q.O.R.s suffered the greatest number of casualties of all the regiments landing on Juno, 61 killed, 77 wounded.
I wonder if the other vehicles in this pic were collateral damage from the same blast?