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Sergeant Eddy Smales,AFPU
© Eddy Smales / IWM (IWM HU 109833)
Notice the AFPU sign on right door, the sign over the number three on the right fender and, the sign on the left fender with #880 and camel. The damage received to AFPU truck in which Sergeant Eddy Smales had been travelling after it had triggered a TALO mine wilst proceding through the Western Desert, c November 1942. http://media.iwm.org.uk/ciim5/521/287/large_000000.jpg
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Eddy Smales' life story has been published by his son and is an interesting read. See link below.
Jon https://books.google.co.uk/books/abo...AJ&redir_esc=y |
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German Intelligence identified (but did not illustrate) the "ever open eye" sign: Propagandaeinheiten - Schwarzes Auge mit Lid Mike
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