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This picture is linked from the Cedarland
website. It is captioned "Fierce fighting in ancient Tripoli.
Insurgents staged a mass street charge, fighting house to house against
government forces for sixty hours. This is one of the only photos known
to have been taken during the battle. Soldiers of the Lebanese army are
firing from a behind a tank and sandbag barricade from cover of a narrow
street. May 22, 1958". |
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Thord Wedman of Sweden served
as a UN peace keeper in Lebanon. He took this picture of an AFV scrap yard
in Tyre barracks in the city of Tyre in 1991. The pictures shows at least
four Sherman Fireflies, one turretless Sherman and two Charioteers. |
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This is a close up of the
two Shermans shown on the extreme right in the picture above. These are
probably Sherman V Fireflies. |
