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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: SC 398704

M4A3E8 "Sherman" Tank


Of Company B, 72nd Tank Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, fires its 76mm gun at enemy bunkers on "Napalm Ridge", in support of the 8th ROK Division.
Photograph is dated 11 May 1952.
Note the prepared firing position, with ammunition cases piled at left, and sandbags piled on the tank hull's rear upper surfaces.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 106KB; 740 x 620 pixels

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2 December 1999