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Title:ADVANCE TO TRIPOLI; CIVILIAN POPULATION OF TAZZOLI; HOMS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 331/5
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The Eighth Army on its advance to Tripoli, Libya.
Description: A Crusader tank of the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry passes prisoners rounded up in Tahuna. A Sherman tank engages an enemy blockhouse at night west of Tahuna. 75mm and Browning guns in action. The flash of the gun is visible in the dark. The crew of a Sherman tank of the Nottinghamshire Yeomanry pull through their 75mm gun before engaging the enemy once more on the road to Tripoli. Sherman, Grant and Crusader tanks go along the main road to Tripoli where they will form part of the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment. Bofors ack ack gives air protection for the advancing tanks. Vickers guns of the 1st Battalion, The Buffs in action on the road to Tripoli. Sherman tanks of the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment advance through a farm at Castel Benito. Italian colonists greet one of the tanks as it passes and throw the crew some oranges. Arabs bring in fighter pilot Sergeant John Stonely from Macclesfield, shot down by enemy ack ack between the lines.
Italian inhabitants of Tazzoli standing outside a building talking. Children running around. A white flag flies from the top of the post office. The church tower. A sergeant talks to the children and gives them chocolate. A very fat child. An Italian hoists a white flag. The post office. Italian signs.
The main street in Homs. The tower. The few remaining inhabitants are interrogated. The police station. A name plate. A monument. Men having a meal outside a house in the town. 6 pounder guns waiting to pass through the town. A monument in the town. A tank passes through the town. A signpost for Homs. The main street. A kilostone marked Tripoli.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Jordan, William 'Billy'1918-03-272005 (Production individual)
Deeming, E A (Production individual)
Morris, R H (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service)
British Army, Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry (regiment/service)
British Army, 3rd Royal Tank Regiment (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal East Kent Regiment (regiment/service)
Keywords: Castel Benito, Libya (geography)
Homs, Libya (geography)
Tazzoli, Libya (geography)
Tahuna, Libya (geography)
Western Desert 1940-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)