Green Beach, 31 May 1982


This painting by Charles David Cobb shows the Scorpion tanks coming ashore with the Commando Brigade. These light weight tanks were just about the only vehicles available to the British that could handle the harsh, boggy terrain of the Falkland Islands.


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