Operation Infatuate II: Sherman tanks at Westkapelle

[Jakko Westerbeke]

For a really good comparison, try the Topotijdreis site (the name means “Topo(graphical) time travel”). That link will take you to a map of Westkapelle before the war; now click on any year after the war in the vertical blue bar on the left.

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Jakko Westerbeke

For a really good comparison, try the Topotijdreis site (the name means “Topo(graphical) time travel”). That link will take you to a map of Westkapelle before the war; now click on any year after the war in the vertical blue bar on the left.

Good visualisation - see https://www.topotijdreis.nl/vergelij...9,394412,10.53

Not many people realise that the beach and the inland lake are very much traces of war - or better: "scars of war"

Westkapelle 1944-2021.jpg

[Jakko Westerbeke]

Another photo of T148656 I have never seen before, by the looks of it when it was outside the war museum in the late 1940s/early 1950s before it got partly cut up:

T148656 late 1940s.jpeg

(With thanks to Ivo of the Polderhuis museum, who saw this posted on Facebook.)

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Jakko Westerbeke

Another photo of T148656 I have never seen before, by the looks of it when it was outside the war museum in the late 1940s/early 1950s before it got partly cut up:
(With thanks to Ivo of the Polderhuis museum, who saw this posted on Facebook.)

Nice find!

[Jakko Westerbeke]

Two more that are new to me:

Dandy Dinmont ca. 1948 (Kroon, G.S.:ZB Beeldbank Zeeland:186802).jpg
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De Tank eind jaren 40 (Kroon, G.S.:ZB Beeldbank Zeeland:186803).jpg
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[Hanno Spoelstra]

Originally Posted by Jakko Westerbeke

Two more that are new to me:

Refresher

http://www.mapleleafup.net/forums/sh...581#post281581

[Jakko Westerbeke]

Oh, you’re right. I didn’t recall seeing those before …