File:HMS Sirius guns.jpg

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Description IWM caption : The Royal Navy's big guns support the Allied armies in Normandy on board the cruiser HMS SIRIUS in the Sword area. The number of shells used by Royal Marines manning the twin 5.25 inch gun X turret can be gauged by the shell cases massed on X-gun deck. They number more than 2,000.
Date 24 - 25 June 1944
Source
Image of the exterior main entrance to the Imperial War Museum in London. This photograph A 24324 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums
(collection no. 4700-01) 		Flag of the United Kingdom.
Author
Claude Henry Parnall  (1897–1986)  wikidata:Q110967291
 
Alternative names
C. H. Parnall; Parnall, C H (Lt)
Description war photographer
Date of birth/death 19 June 1897 Edit this at Wikidata 1986 Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q110967291
, Royal Navy official photographer
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current11:38, 30 November 2011Thumbnail for version as of 11:38, 30 November 2011800 × 591 (83 KB)Rcbutcher (talk | contribs)replaced with new higher-resolution version from IWM
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