Postcard Set 12 (David Pentland)
PS12. Postcard Set 12 (David Pentland) Set of 8 postcards including : Rommel in Normandy, The Falaise Gap, Barkmanns Stand, Debut at Caumont - Normandy - 30th July 1944, Kampfgruppe Peiper, Screaming Eagles in Normandy 1944, Liberation - Sherman Tanks of the Guards Brigade, Operation Cobra - normandy - 28th July 1944. Each postcard 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Items in this pack : Item #1 - Click to view individual item P1025. Rommel in Normandy, France, 2nd July 1944 by David Pentland. Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel, commander of Army Group B, consults with his former subordinate from North Africa, now divisional commander of the elite Panzer Lehr, General Fritz Bayerlein and the Colonel Rudolf Gerhardt of Panzer Regiment Lehr, over the imminent transfer of the division to confront the Americans at St. Lo. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Item #2 - Click to view individual item P958. The Falaise Gap, Normandy, 12th - 20th August 1944 by David Pentland. After almost two months of continuous fighting in the front line, remnants of the 12th SS Panzer Division, Hitler Jugend, fall back under incessant air attacks by allied fighter bombers for their final battles in France. In their defense of the northern flank of what is to become the Falaise Gap the new Jagdpanzer IV in particular is to prove a formidable foe to the attacking British and Canadian tanks. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Item #3 - Click to view individual item P1203. Barkmann's Stand by David Pentland. Ernst Barkmann of the Das Reich 2nd SS panzer Division holds his position near St lo, Normandy 26th July 1944. against an American Armoured breakthrough. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Item #4 - Click to view individual item P1027. Debut at Caumont, 30th July 1944 by David Pentland. Jagdpanthers of 654 heavy Tank Battalion engage 6th Guards Tank Brigade Churchills. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Item #5 - Click to view individual item P846. Kampfgruppe Peiper by David Pentland. Oberssturmbannfuhrer Jochim Peiper, commander of the armoured spearhead of 1st SS Panzer Division, in conference with some of the officers of other units under his command. Aside form men and tanks of his own division, these included King tigers of the 501st heavy tank battalion and paratroops of 1st battalion, 9th Fallschrimjager regiment. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Item #6 - Click to view individual item P996. Screaming Eagles in Normandy, 7th June 1944 by David Pentland. Having made contact the previous evening with troops of 4th Infantry Division pushing inland from Utah Beach, paratroopers of the 101st Airborne division The Screaming Eagles help mop up the pockets of German resistance in their general advance towards Carentan. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Item #7 - Click to view individual item P1170. Liberation - Sherman Tanks of the Guards Brigade by David Pentland Somme Valley, Northern France, August 1944. A Sherman Firefly of the Guards Armoured Division is greeted by members of the French Resistance as the division pushes north from the Seine towards the Somme bridges and on to Brussels. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Item #8 - Click to view individual item PDP18. Operation Cobra, Normandy, 28th July 1944 by David Pentland After almost two months Sherman tanks and armoured infantry of the US 2nd Armoured Division eventually broke through the German defences south-west of St Lo. Pushing aside the shattered remnants of Panzer Lehr Division, their rapid advance forced a general German retreat. This would ultimately spell disaster for the German armies in France. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
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