Aerial view of destroyed German Equipment, Chambois area

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To the top left is an Austin 10hp utility truck with a British soldier stood near it.

Abandoned in the field are among other things 2 Kubelwagons,a Panzer IV tank and a 88mm Pak 43 anti tank gun.

One of a series of low level pictures taken of destroyed German equipment that littered the Falaise Pocket area, much of it destroyed by Allied tactical airpower that roamed at will over the roads packed with the transport of the 7th Army as it tried to escape the pocket through the small corridor held open up to the 19th of August. Allied artillery and a simple shortage of fuel completed the loss of most of the armies transport and heavy weapons.