040484 Accession Number: 040484

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A print from a 35 millimetre film taken from a German prisoner of war captured by the 9th Australian Infantry Division in Egypt. The film had evidently been taken between Barce and Tobruk. The picture is of an Italian Carro Armato M13/40 medium tank crossing the desert. This tank is armed with a 47mm/32 M1935 main gun and a coaxial 8mm Breda M1938 machine gun in the turret, with two more mounted in a small casemate in the hull front.

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Accession Number
040484
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Film polyester negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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