Title:CORPS ADVANCES THROUGH 'BOCAGE' COUNTRY [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 107-6
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Summary: Units serving with the 43rd (Wessex) Division advance southwards from Caumont towards the Bois du Hommes and Cahagnes.
Description: Infantrymen serving with the 5th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment march in single file in the direction of the Bois du Homme past a sign warning of mines buried in the roadside verges. A few yards away, two sappers from 260th Field Company RE (?) probe with a metal prodder and a mine detector for hidden Teller and S-mines near the corpse of a Wehrmacht soldier from the 326th Infantry Division. Stretcher bearers and a PIAT team from the 7th Battalion Hampshire Regiment make their way through a gap in a hedgerow and join the rest of a rifle company advancing across a field towards Cahagnes. An officer picks up one of the many leaflets dropped by the RAF urging the Germans to surrender. A bren-gunner, a rifleman and a sten-gunner spray trees, bushes and hedgerows with bullets more possibly for the benefit of the cameraman than for any discouraging effect they will have on hidden German snipers. Captured after a fierce struggle by the 1st Worcester Regiment, the cross-roads village of Cahagnes is in flames.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Ginger (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, Wiltshire Regiment, 5th Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde 129 (regiment/service)
British Army, Hampshire Regiment, 7th Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde 130 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 43 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
Keywords: propaganda (object name)
weapons, British - smallarm: Bren (object name)
casualties, German dead - battlefield (object name)
weapons, British - smallarm: Sten (object name)
equipment, British military - damage control: mine detector (object name)
operations, British military - mines: clearance (object name)
Operation Bluecoat, Mont Pinçon 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
Normandy, France (geography)
