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Title:THE AIR OBSERVATION POST, ROYAL ARTILLERY; ATTACK ON DJEBEL ALLILIGA AND DJEBEL MANSOUR MOUNTAINS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 335/7
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Shots taken in flight from an Air Observation Post aircraft over the El Aroussa valley, Tunisia. An attack by the 1st Parachute Brigade and the Grenadier Guards.
Description: 2 February. Shots of the mountain and valley. Shots of roads and transport. Farms and surrounding country. The Pilot Officer, Royal Artillery at the controls of the plane. The plane lands. The ground crew lifting the plane to rest in a haystack. Ground crew putting camouflage nets over the plane. The plane in the haystack. Pilot Officers of the Royal Artillery.
4 February. German prisoners. A wounded man on a stretcher with French and British soldiers talking to him. French mules. The wounded soldier. German shells bursting on British positions. The Guards go into action.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Gunn, J F (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service)
British Army, 1st Parachute Brigade (regiment/service)
British Army, Grenadier Guards (regiment/service)
Keywords: El Aroussa, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)