Title

'Victors of the Mareth Line', 1943. Artist: Unknown.

Caption

'Victors of the Mareth Line', 1943. The Battle of the Mareth line or the Battle of Mareth, 16th to 31st March 1943, was part of an Allied operation under General Bernard Montgomery in Tunisia during the Second World War, intended to assault the Mareth Line defences held by German and Italian forces under General Giovanni Messe. From The War Illustrated Volume 6 edited by Sir John Hammerton. [The Amalgamated Press Ltd, London, 1943]
The Print Collector collection

Date

1943

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C66_207

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,8Mb (5,6Mb) / 13,0in x 16,4in / 3895 x 4919 (300dpi)

Keywords

transport transportation outdoors Africa people male group vehicle man men sitting day guy color colour unity uniform united dress war century tank tanks soldiers soldier Tunisia concept battle victor 1940s publication publishing Forties uniting armoured vehicle World War II World War two WWII world war 2 20th century historic The Print Collector decade Second World War TGN WW2 photograph portrait 2nd World War Unknown General Montgomery J A Hammerton Hammerton J A General Montgomery Field Marshal Montgomery Bernard Law Montgomery Monty Montgomery of Alamein publishing house Sir Bernard Montgomery Bernard Montgomery spot colour Amalgamated Press War Illustrated Sir John Alexander Hammerton Sir John Alexander Battle of Mareth Mareth Line General Montgomery Sir John Alexander Hammerton Giovanni Messe photograph portrait