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Tanks Moving Up for the Breakthrough
Painted in 1946 by George Pepper (1903–1962)

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South of Caen en route to Falaise. The red tail-lights on the tanks are significant. This attack was a bold attempt to move forward in the dead of night, each tank navigating by following the tail-lights of the one ahead.


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