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Rhodesia late 1970's 2 individuals posing with remains of a mine protected Landover after striking a land mine. (As an aside a BSAP Special Branch Officer had the world record at the time of hitting 3 landmines in one day in 3 different vehicles ~ North Eastern border).
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Normandy Scene, Beach in Gold Area. Jack Nichols, 1946.

Trying to figure out what grandmere has in her lap.
 
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The Commando Memorial near Fort William in the Scottish highlands.
 

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Possibly a scroll?
I thought it looked suspiciously like a STEN Mk.III but why would she have one?

Hmm the 'grandmere' could be a soldier as well as the figure behind him holding the infant. They could be wearing their gas capes and helmet covers?

So there could be as many as three Allied soldiers in this painting. On the extreme left you can see what looks like a hint of crowds of civilians fleeing the inferno. On the extreme right. .

Nichols mostly painted war scenes that were seared into his memory.

The painting becomes more unsettling the longer you study it.

It is a scene from the apocalypse.

This concludes today's episode of Night Gallery
 
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