British soldiers inspect the impact of cannon shells on a captured StuG 4 (Sturmgeschütz) assault gun in Italy; 1944.


Minimal damage visible

A British Long Range Desert Group truck halted while its crew enjoy a midday break in the shade beneath the vehicle; July 1942. This shade was sometimes shared by exhausted and migrating birds. Corporal Read, Medical Orderly, is on top of the truck. It was essential to stop at midday in the summer because the shadow of the sun-compass needle was too short to give an accurate reading of direction. 


Any shade will do

British soldiers on a truck after the battle of El Alamein, Egypt, North Africa. The inscription on the board (in German): “Attention! Unexploded ammunition.”

 

 

