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Title:ATTACK ON DJEBEL MANSOUR AND DJEBEL ALLILIGA MOUNTAINS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 335/3/2
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes behind the action of an attack on the mountains Djebel Mansour and Djebel Alliliga by the 1st Parachute Brigade and the French Foreign Legion.
Description: Sergeant Parker of the 1st Parachute Brigade walking with prisoners coming out of the battle. Private Hand coming back with face and hand wounds. The French Foreign Legion with their mules waiting to go to the front with supplies. The Grenadier Guards marching to take up battle positions. Guards march with their equipment through "Happy Valley". Shells and a smokescreen being placed by Djebel Mansour before the attack. Bombs landing twenty yards from the camera. Smoke left by Stuka bombing.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Coleman, E (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, 1st Parachute Brigade (regiment/service)
British Army, Grenadier Guards (regiment/service)
French Army, French Foreign Legion (regiment/service)
Keywords: Djebel Alliliga, Tunisia (geography)
Djebel Mansour, Tunisia (geography)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)