MED0212 Accession Number: MED0212

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Tripoli, Tripolitania, Libya. 21 December 1941. This remarkable photograph captured from a German prisoner of war (POW) shows a great column of smoke from a burning fuel store still rising in the sky on the morning after a raid by the RAF. 'Petrol dumps were also hit' say the RAF communiques. Corroboration which makes it quite clear that no exaggerated claims are made has thus been obligingly supplied by the enemy.

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Accession Number
MED0212
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Negative
Physical Description
Support: Acetate
Format: 3x4"
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Whole
Item Count
1
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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