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Photograph of convoy crossing the desert, taken just as one hits a land mine
- Date
- 3 December 1942
- By
- Paton, Harold Gear, 1919-2010
- Reference
- DA-06877-F
- Description
A scene at the instant a truck struck a land mine, showing the dust and smoke of the explosion forming a darker cloud in the clouds of sand raised by the convoy. Photograph taken by H Paton at Mersa Matruh, 3 December 1942.
Inscriptions: Verso - `Taken at the instant a truck struck a land mine, the dust and smoke of the explosion forms a darker cloud in the clouds of sand raised by the convoy outside Mersa Matruh during the opening of the 8 Army pursuit of the Axis forces in November'.
Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s).
- Access restrictions
- Partly restricted - Please use surrogate in place of original
- Part of
- New Zealand. Department of Internal Affairs. War History Branch :Photographs relating to World War 1914-1918, World War 1939-1945, occupation of Japan, Korean War, and Malayan Emergency / World War 1939-1945 official negatives - DA Series
- Format
- 1 b&w original negative(s), Negatives
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