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Postcard Set 3 (David Pentland)
PS3. Postcard Set 3 (David Pentland) Set of 8 postcards, including : Operation Supercharger, Operation Winter Tempest, tigers in the Mist, Operation Zitadelle, Anzio, The Desert Fox, Battle of Gazala, Counter Attack at Villers Bocage. Each postcard 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Items in this pack : Item #1 - Click to view individual item P791. Anzio, Italy, February 1944 by David Pentland. Replacements from 1st Battalion Irish Guards and Sherman tanks of the 46th Royal Tank Regiment move through the debris of Anzio town towards their jump-off positions for the Battle of Campoleone Station. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Item #2 - Click to view individual item P774. Battle for Gazala by David Pentland . Panzer IIs and IIIs of the African Korps, 15th Panzer Division drive towards Arcoma during the epic battles for the Gazala line. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Item #3 - Click to view individual item P794. Tigers in the Mist by David Pentland. King Tigers of Kampfgruppe von Rosen, 3rd Company Heavy Tank Battalion 503, preparing to move out from the Tisza bridgehead to counter Soviet pressure on German forces attacking to the northwest at Debrecen during the first battles to defend the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Item #4 - Click to view individual item P786. Operation Winter Tempest by David Pentland. Panzer IVF2 tanks of 6th Panzer Division, Panzer Armee Hoth, attempt to fight their way through to the beleaguered Sixth Army at Stalingrad, 12th December 1942. On the 21st the operation was abandoned when the expected breakout from Stalingrad failed to materialise, the relief column was only 25 miles from the city. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Item #5 - Click to view individual item P585. The Desert Fox by David Pentland. El Alamein, October 28th 1943, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel discusses the critical battle situation with the Commanding Officer of the 21st Panzer Division, in front of his Kampfstaffel. This personal mobile headquarters comprised a variety of vehicles including a radio Panzer III, SDKfz 232 radio armoured car, Rommels famous SDKfz 250/3 communications half-track GREIF and captured British Honey light tanks. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Item #6 - Click to view individual item P797. Operation Zitadelle by David Pentland. Panzer v Ausf. D Panthers of SS Panther Division Das Reich make their debut during the initial stages of the German summer offensive for Kursk. This unit with others of the SS Panzer Korps made the deepest advances into the well-prepared Soviet lines. Complete success however, was to elude them when outrunning their supporting divisions at Prokhorovka they were forced to halt for six days. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Item #7 - Click to view individual item P860. Counter Attack at Villers Bocage by David Pentland. A handful of Tigers from 2nd Kompanie SS Schwere Panzer Abteilung 101 halted the advance of the British 7th Armoured Division, The Desert Rats, outside the little Norman village of Villers Bocage. Prowling through the streets of the village, the solitary tank of Hauptsturmfuhrer Michael Wittmann knocked out most of the 4th County of London Yeomanrys regimental HQ Stuart and Cromwell tanks, before falling victim to a 6pdr anti-tank gun. Wittmann survived the battle but was killed a month later on August 8th 1944. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Item #8 - Click to view individual item P586. Operation Supercharge, 4th November 1941 by David Pentland. British MK1 Grant tanks of the Staffordshire Yeomanry 8th Armoured Brigade, 10th Armoured Division, breakout from El Alamein. Postcard Postcard size 6 inches x 4 inches (15cm x 10cm)
Website Price: £ 16.00
To purchase these prints individually at their normal retail price would cost £17.60 . By buying them together in this special pack, you save £1.6
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