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Title:SURPRISE ATTACK BY ENEMY REPULSED [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 319/6
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The 6th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers and a company of the Royal Irish Fusiliers counter-attack the enemy at Bou Arada, Tunisia.
Description: A wounded horse pulls an empty cart from the battlefield. A crashed Ju 88 shot down during the attack. The London Irish Rifles with Bren carriers moving forwards to attack. The Bren carrier moving off. The London Irish Rifles moving up with a 2 pounder anti-tank gun. Artillery shelling a farm. A direct hit on a farm house. Ammunition blowing up in the farm. A suspected Messerschmitt shot down over the battlefield, a trail of smoke. The village of Bou Arada as bombs burst in the centre after an attack by fifteen Ju 88s.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
French, Henry (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 6th Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, London Regiment, 18th Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: Bou Arada, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)