CMPs in Italy: some photos

[Hanno Spoelstra]

More pics taken in Italy

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Not a CMP, but a Sherman M4A1(76)W fresh from the factory, it seems.

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"Mud slows up advance in Italy"

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Fox armoured cars in "The Town's Main Square"?

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Two Ford F15A's, left one is CZ 4210971. It has the air recognition roundel on its roof.

"Canadian military units landing in Italy, 1943."
Credit: Canadian Army Overseas Photo, Department of National Defense, National Archives of Canada, PA175778
(ID #20565)

[Les Freathy]

Found this one in TANKS iLLUSTRATED NO20 Allied tanks in Italy printed in 1985 so not sure if the book is still in print
Les

[Hanno Spoelstra]

From http://www.iwmcollections.org.uk

Photo No.: NA 7669
Photographer: Bowman (Sgt)
No 2 Army Film & Photographic Unit
Title: THE CAMPAIGN IN ITALY, SEPTEMBER-DECEMBER 1943: THE ALLIED ADVANCE TO THE GUSTAV LINE
Collection No.: 4700-39
Description: The Volturno River 12 - 16 October 1943: Guns and vehicles of 48 Field Battery, 146 Field Regiment, Royal Artillery sink in mud during the advance to the Volturno.
Date: 8 October 1943

[Les Freathy]

Found a couple more CMPs in Italy, the first a 3 tonner crossing a baily bridge

[Les Freathy]

I think that should state constructing not crossing, heres the second a NO 12 cab 3 tonner passing a Morris C9B bofors prtee

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C15A towing 6-pdr AT gun, 48th Highlanders, Italy, 1944.

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Army Supply vehicles on their way to the front, packed along a track the Engineers ran through the Rapido River flats at the junction of the Rapido and Liri Rivers, near Cassino, Italy, 21 May 1944.

Photo by W.H. Agnew. Department of National Defence / National Archives of Canada, PA- 151180

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From: www.junobeach.org

"The Royal 22e Regiment landing on the beach at Reggio di Calabria on the morning of September 3rd, 1943

Photo by Alexander M. Stirton. Department of National Defence / National Archives of Canada, PA-177114."