Armoured Dozer

[Mark W. Tonner]

Originally posted by servicepub
Here is a drawing by official Canadian War Artist Capt. O.N. Fisher. Caption reads "Engineers clearing roads through Caen". AoS number is '48'

Just to add to what Clive said, I've seen the painting of this drawing and the dozer's AoS serial and formation sign are that of the 3rd Field Park Company, R.C.E. which was part of the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division.

Cheers

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Here's anther picture of an Armoured Dozer

IWM BU 4333
"A bulldozer demolishing a road block for the entry of British armour into Bremen."
Date: 1945-04-25

IWM BU 4333.jpg
Source: https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/i...ject/205428687


393069131554 IWM BU 4333.jpg
Source:https://www.ebay.com/itm/1945-German...m/393069131554

[Jakko Westerbeke]

Looking through a museum’s archive of scans, I just came across these two pages from the London Illustrated News from 11 November 1944, that I thought might be interesting/amusing here:

Illustrated London News 1944-11-11 page 540.jpg Illustrated London News 1944-11-11 page 541.jpg

(In the scan, the first page was blank above the part shown here, so I trimmed it down.)

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Jakko,

Thanks, interesting to read how they tried to explain the weapons of war to the general public.