Title:REINFORCEMENTS; TANK RECOVERY [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 358/1
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Reinforcements in Tunisia. A stranded tank.
Description: 1 March. Seven Churchill tanks of the Guards Tank Brigade travelling from Teboursouk. Other Churchill tanks on the same road on the way to Medjez-El-Bab. Further Churchills following later. Supply lorries, Bren carriers and troops travel along the same road as reinforcements.
2 March. An almost intact stranded German Mark III tank. Close-up of a hole made by a shell. A recovery vehicle of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers hooks up the tank and tows it away.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Weber, V (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, 6th Guards Tank Brigade (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (regiment/service)
Keywords: Teboursouk, Tunisia (geography)
Medjez el Bab, Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
