BRITISH ATTACK AND THRUST FOR KAIROUAN [Allocated Title]
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- Title: BRITISH ATTACK AND THRUST FOR KAIROUAN [Allocated Title]
- Film Number: AYY 389/4
- Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
- Summary: British troops in the Allied attack on the Pichon front in central Tunisia.
- Description: 8 April. The 2/4th Hampshire Regiment moving up to assist in the attack. Three German prisoners carrying a wounded British man back from the front. A group of approximately forty captured Germans in a ditch on the roadside. A 75mm gun left by the Germans in a wadi two kilometres west of Pichon. The same gun from the rear showing the white dusty road with the wadi in the background. British troops moving forwards one kilometre west of Pichon. Panning shot of a signboard reading "Pichon" and "Kairouan". Men of the 6th Armoured Division Pioneers removing mines. Fifteen Germans approaching the road having given themselves up. Prisoners being led out of Pichon on their way to the rear. A German half track vehicle with two German prisoners. One man sorts out scattered kit on the ground and the other is on the truck. Brigadier Campbell of the Royal Engineers packing captured outgoing German mail into a sack. Close-up of the words "Deutsche Reich Poste" on the sack and a close-up of the smiling Brigadier. Two Churchill tanks passing through Pichon on their way to the front. A group of German prisoners with an unhappy-looking German corporal. A goat trotting along with a platoon of the 5th Battalion the Hampshire Regiment, trotting between two smiling soldiers. Men of the regiment moving up in front of a sign for Pichon. Churchill tanks supported by troops going over a hill six kilometres east of Pichon. Men of the 5th Field Squadron, 6th Armoured Division laying a stretch of coir matting over a sandy wadi. Men driving in stakes to hold the matting down. A Bofors gun is hauled across the matting. Sherman tanks advance towards the gap at Fondouk. 10 April. A German warning sign reading "Achtung Minen" on the entrance to Fondouk from Kairouan. Approximately forty German prisoners resting on the grass two miles east of Fondouk. Close-up of a field of poppies and daisies into which the German prisoners march. They file past with mountains in the background. Masses of tanks, guns and supply trucks on the plain five miles east of Fondouk. An empty petrol tank is thrown from a tank down to others lying on the ground. Tanks moving off as the attack starts. Brigadier Roberts ("Battling Bob") at the conning tower of the Sherman tank. German prisoners captured in the attack being transported back to the rear lines. Some are laughing and joking. A wrecked 88mm gun and wrecked German half track vehicles in a wadi east of Fondouk. Shell cases on the ground. View from the front of the half track to the gun in the rear showing how completely the transport was destroyed. Close-up of the gun. A group of German prisoners at the roadside. Close-ups of some of the prisoners.
- Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
- Colour: B&W
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- Object_Number: AYY 389/4
- Sound: Silent
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1943-04-08
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company) West, J A (Production individual)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Hampshire Regiment, 2/4th Battalion (regiment/service) British Army, 6th Armoured Division (regiment/service) British Army, Pioneer Corps (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Engineers, 5th Field Squadron (regiment/service) British Army, Hampshire Regiment, 5th Battalion (regiment/service) German Army (Third Reich) (regiment/service)
- Keywords: Pichon, Tunisia (geography) Fondouk, Tunisia (geography) Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event) North Africa 1939-1945 (theme) Prisoners of War, 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: 755 ft; Running time: 8 mins
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