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Photograph 014114 Second World War, 1939-1945DAWN ATTACK. TANKS GOING INTO ACTION NEAR SIDI BARRANI IN A DAWN ATTACK ON THE REARGUARD OF ROMMEL'S FLEEING FORCES.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
TANK BATTLE. EIGHTH ARMY DRIVE. TANKS MOVING FORWARD TO ATTACK THE ENEMY WHO WAS FIGHTING A REARGUARD ACTION NEAR SIDI BARRANI. (NEGATIVE BY F. HURLEY).
DAWN ATTACK. TANKS GOING INTO ACTION NEAR SIDI BARRANI IN A DAWN ATTACK ON THE REARGUARD OF ROMMEL'S FLEEING FORCES.

COUNTING THE COST. THIS SHOT WAS TAKEN SHORTLY AFTER A DECISIVE TANK BATTLE FOR A BLOCKHOUSE NEAR TEL EL EISA. IN THE FOREGROUND ARE SOME OF OUR TANKS KNOCKED OUT BY ANTI-TANK GUNS. WE ACCOUNTED FOR 1

MOVING ON. INFANTRY PREPARING TO LEAVE FRONT LINE POSITIONS AT DAY-BREAK DURING THE EIGHTH ARMY'S VICTORIOUS DRIVE. THE ENEMY HAS VACATED HIS LINES IN THE NIGHT. (NEGATIVE BY F. HURLEY).

NEAR SIDI BARRANI, EGYPT. ON INTO THE NIGHT THE HEAVY TANKS LUMBER INTO ACTION AGAINST THE RETREATING ENEMY.

BATTLE STRATEGY. LIEUT. GENERAL SIR BERNARD MONTGOMERY, COMMANDER OF THE BRITISH EIGHTH ARMY CONFERS WITH A TANK COMMANDER OF THE FIRST LINE OF ARMOUR, NEAR FUKA. (NEGATIVE BY F. HURLEY).

SIDI BARRANI - A STREAM OF PRISONERS NEARLY TWO MILES LONG CAME INTO SIDI BARRANI FROM THE SOLLUM AREA, THERE TO AWAIT TRANSHIPMENT TO PRISON CAMPS. (PHOTOGRAPHED BY F. HURLEY).
