SALVAGING OF CAPTURED ENEMY EQUIPMENT AND MATERIAL; MAJOR-GENERAL I T P HUGHES; ITALIAN AND GERMAN POWs; VARIOUS; MATRUH SHAMBLES; ROADSIDE DERELICTS; TRAVERSING HALFAYA PASS; RAIN IN THE DESERT; WESTERN DESERT BATTLE [Allocated Title]
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- Title: SALVAGING OF CAPTURED ENEMY EQUIPMENT AND MATERIAL; MAJOR-GENERAL I T P HUGHES; ITALIAN AND GERMAN POWs; VARIOUS; MATRUH SHAMBLES; ROADSIDE DERELICTS; TRAVERSING HALFAYA PASS; RAIN IN THE DESERT; WESTERN DESERT BATTLE [Allocated Title]
- Film Number: AYY 276/3-4
- Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
- Summary: Activity in the Western Desert.
- Description: AYY 276/3. 10 November. A sign reads "Home via Salvage". Salvage dump of captured Italian and German weapons and supplies in the Southern Sector. British Intelligence Officers examining Italian Breda light machine guns. Captured 105mm Howitzer guns and German heavy guns. Captured 4.7-inch dual purpose anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns. A Royal Army Ordnance Corps sergeant depresses a 4.7-inch dual purpose gun. 4 November. The General Officer Commanding the 44th Division maps out his plan of attack in the front line in the Central Sector. Italian paratroops (Folgore Parachute Division) and German paratroops captured in the recent fighting. Some POWs had walked for two days without food or water. One Italian prisoner walks on the rocks in bare feet, his boots in his hand. 12 November. Sunken ships in the harbour at Matruh. German signs at the western entrance to Matruh. 5.5 inch guns moving up to Sollum. Clearing Sollum Pass. AYY 276/4. 9 November. Damage inflicted on Matruh by the Royal Navy and RAF. British infantry patrolling the ruins for lurking Germans. A New Zealand infantryman discovers a dead German. 10 November. Derelict German and Italian vehicles on the road between Mersa Matruh and Sidi Barrani, including a half burnt tank. 11 November. Trucks entering Halfaya Pass. Distant dots of trucks on the plain below. Trucks negotiating a hairpin bend. A military policeman directs traffic. Men on top of a truck waving. 7 November. Infantry from the 5th New Zealand Brigade advancing through the mud in the Western Desert, eight miles south of Sidi Haneish. Testing for booby traps. Feet tramping past German helmets. A gunner advancing. Close-up of feet in the mud. A jeep splashing through mud. 11 November. Damage done by British bombers to railway at Mersa Matruh. Abandoned German mail. British tanks attacking Matruh. Naval assault craft unloading petrol for the advance columns at Mersa Matruh. British tanks in Mersa Matruh. Prisoners routed out from wrecked buildings. General Freyberg, Commanding the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, leads a column through Sidi Barrani. He scans the landscape for signs of the retreating enemy. A deserted house in Sollum.
- Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
- Colour: B&W
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- Object_Number: AYY 276/3-4
- Sound: Silent
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1942-11-10
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Barnes, P A (Production individual) Flack (Sergeant) (Production individual) Windows, J C (Production individual) Wernham, John19072007(1907-2007) British soldier, photographer and osteopath. Sergeant John Wernham (Production individual) Morris, R H (Production individual) Currey (Sergeant) (Production individual)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: Freyberg, Bernard Cyril (person) British Army, 44th Division (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Army Ordnance Corps (regiment/service) New Zealand Army, 1st New Zealand Brigade (regiment/service)
- Keywords: Mersa Matruh, Egypt (geography) Sidi Barrani, Egypt (geography) Sollum, Egypt (geography) Halfaya Pass, Egypt (geography) El Alamein 1942, North Africa, Second World War (event) Western Desert 1940-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event) North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
- Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 1149 ft; Running time: 12 mins
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