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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.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
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)