128608 Accession Number: 128608

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Oil storage tanks burnt out by RAF Bomber Command aircraft on the night of 23/24 June 1943. The submerged vessel is the destroyer Alpino which was sunk during an Allied raid on 19 April 1943. (British Admiralty Photograph, C3582).

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Accession Number
128608
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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