Title:SCENES IN THE WESTERN DESERT [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 272/22
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Activities in the Western Desert south of Fûka and south of El Daba.
Description: Thousands of prisoners marching back as the Eighth Army advance on either side. A blazing German armoured car knocked out during the advance on Fûka. Wrecked enemy planes on an airfield. Lieutenant-General Montgomery and Duncan Sandys in the Western Desert. Montgomery helps his driver to repair a puncture. Montgomery and Duncan Sandys inspect a German generator. They look at a map.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Groom, G (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Montgomery, Bernard Law (person)
Sandys, Duncan (person)
British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: El Daba, Egypt (geography)
Fûka, Egypt (geography)
El Alamein 1942, North Africa, Second World War (event)
Western Desert 1940-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
