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Photograph 022558 Second World War, 1939-1945Libya. December 1941. A burning Italian Carro Armato M13/40 medium tank in the bushy hill country near Barce. In the background a truck from an advancing Allied column drives along a nearby road.

The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Libya. December 1941. An Italian Carro Armato M13/40 medium tank destroyed by British forces in the bushy hill country near Barce during Operation CRUSADER. In the background a truck from an advancing allied column drives along a nearby road.
Libya. December 1941. A burning Italian Carro Armato M13/40 medium tank in the bushy hill country near Barce. In the background a truck from an advancing Allied column drives along a nearby road.

Libya. December 1941. An Italian Carro Armato M13/40 medium tank captured by British forces in the bushy hill country near Barce. In the background a truck from an advancing Allied column drives along

Barce, Libya. December 1941. A captured Italian Carro Armato M13/40 medium tank in the main square. The front suspension on the tank has been wrecked, probably by retreating Italian forces. In the bac

BEDA FOMM, LIBYA. 1941-02. ITALIAN CARRO ARMATO M13/40 MEDIUM TANKS CAPTURED AT THE BATTLE OF BEDA FOMM. (PHOTOGRAPH REPRODUCED IN OFFICIAL HISTORY VOLUME: TO BENGHAZI, PAGE 282). (IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM

NORTH AFRICA. 1942. CAPTURED ITALIAN CARRO ARMATO M13/40 MEDIUM TANKS, TYPE 39-40. (DONOR: L. DAVIS)

This Italian Carro Armato M13/40 medium tank was captured by the AIF in Libya and brought to Australia for examination by armament experts. Its turret, with its 47mm gun is trained to the rear and its
