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Battle for Carpiquet Airfield
Painted in 1946 by Orville Fisher (1911–1999)

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The 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade at Carpiquet airfield on July 4, 1944. Orville Fisher, an official war artist serving in the Canadian Army, used the image of a destroyed, but still standing, aircraft hangar to symbolize this determined, but ultimately unsuccessful, effort.


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