Title:CAPTURED GERMAN 17CM GUN; PRISONERS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 382/5/4
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: A gun captured at El Hamma is taken to the X Corps Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers workshop for examination and to have a new firing pin fitted. German and Italian prisoners driving away in their own trucks.
Description: The gun being elevated. Panning shot along the gun and up the barrel. Lieutenant-Colonel R A Neville, Assistant Director of Artillery, directs the dismantling of the gun. The breech is removed. The gunner swings up the handle to peer inside the gun. Trucks driving up to the Brigadier of the 2nd Armoured Brigade. Trucks driving towards the camera. A German cross on a truck. The German driver smiling. Men on trucks. A driver getting off the truck. Lorries driving towards the camera and stopping.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Deeming, E A (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, X Corps (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps of Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, 2nd Armoured Brigade (regiment/service)
German Army (Third Reich) (regiment/service)
Keywords: Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
Prisoners of War, North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
