The story
The 43rd Wessex Division, with tanks from 13th/18th Hussars, also worked their way up the hill, via an old farm track.
Photo: German 75mm anti-tank gun captured at Mont Pincon, 9 August 1944.
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You have arrived at just one small part of Back to Normandy — a personal project dedicated to preserving stories, images, music and memories of the Second World War.
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