Title:THE BRITISH ADVANCE ON THE ALLIED FRONT [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 352/2
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The British advance south of Thala, Tunisia.
Description: A German tank of the 21st Panzer Division blown to pieces. The gun turret of the tank five yards away. Several shots of another burned out German tank. A dead German soldier lying on the side of another tank. Other knocked out tanks including two captured Valentines. Men of the 8th Field Company, Royal Engineers searching the road with a Polish mine detector, nicknamed a "carpet sweeper". Men probing the side of the road and using a detector and bayonets to find mines. Close-up of a sapper. The sapper calling a NCO to take up a mine.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Huggett, J. (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: German Army (Third Reich) (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Engineers, 8th Field Company (regiment/service)
Keywords: Thala, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
