LIFE IN TANKS; 6 POUNDERS IN ACTION IN THE WESTERN DESERT; HOLY COMMUNION FOR THE WOUNDED [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: LIFE IN TANKS; 6 POUNDERS IN ACTION IN THE WESTERN DESERT; HOLY COMMUNION FOR THE WOUNDED [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: AYY 255/8-10
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Scenes of tank routine in the Eighth Army, some enacted, in the Western Desert.
  • Description: AYY 255/8 The Troop leader arrives and informs the squadron leaders of their positions. Tank maintenance. A Besa gun is cleaned. The wireless operator checks points. Orders are received and the tanks move off. Evening rations and the mail are distributed. Three tanks survey the ground from a ridge on morning patrol. Demonstration of smokescreen. Re-enactment of a tank crew baling out and an injury being dressed. Demonstration of one tank towing another. AYY 255/9. 29 August. A 6 pounder gun being run off a truck and fixed. It fires in retaliation at enemy shell fire and is then moved off. AYY 255/10. 25 August. A padre offers communion bread and wine at a field hospital at El Tahag.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1942-08-23
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Flack (Sergeant) (Production individual) Neill, N S (Production individual) Morris, R H (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: El Tahag, Egypt (geography) El Alamein 1942, North Africa, Second World War (event) North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 1345 ft; Running time: 14 mins
  • Notes: This also contains the last shot of Demonstration of Captured Enemy Equipment, according to the dope sheet.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    AYY 255/8-10

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