Picture No | 11007653 |
Date | 1918 |
Description | Zeebrugge mole fight: marines charging along the mole, 1918 |
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The Zeebrugge mole fight: HMS Vindictive's marines charging along the mole, bomb a German destroyer. After escalating the parapet and dropping down to the mole itself: the gas-masked and steel-helmeted marines flinging hand grenades into one of the German destroyers that were attacked at their moorings alongside the mole wall.
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Source | Drawn by Frederic de Haenen from eyewitness material, in the Illustrated London News, 4th May 1918 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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