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Tiger 02 is driving itself off a Marinefährprahm into Karouba airfield. The tank is in "transport" configuration, and carries its own road wheels and hubs that were detached to make it narrow enough for the ferry. The left-hand exhaust shield seems to be deformed, and consequently, exhaust fumes have stained the gun barrel on that side.
We can identify this Tiger as 02 thanks to another photo, apparently taken a short time later, where the same loose equipment is still on the tank. This Tiger in the distance is hard to discern but it seems to be Tiger 233.
Karouba airfield fronts onto the bay of Bizerte because it originally serviced seaplanes. We can identify it thanks to several other photos; for example, an aircraft in this photo appears in another photo of Karouba, and the photographer snapped the scene too. We can therefore place Tiger 02 on this view of the airfield. The tank is near [1], and the crane is at [2].
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