ATLAS MOUNTAIN TROOPS [Allocated Title]



  • Title: ATLAS MOUNTAIN TROOPS [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: AYY 370/3/3
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: The Atlas Mountain Troops (101 Goum) mixed Moroccan troops, specialists in mountain warfare, in the Tunisian hills east of Bou Arada.
  • Description: Sergeant Andre Boetel inspecting a section of Moroccan troops and rifles. French and Moroccan sergeants in front of the section. A Goum soldier. Troops crawling. French and Moroccan sergeants, one holds a captured German light machine gun. The distant hills where the patrol will work at night. Troops resting at the farm before going out on patrol.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1943-03-18
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company) Huggett, J. (Sergeant) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Boetel, Andre (person) Free French Army, Corps d'Afrique (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Bou Arada, Tunisia (geography) Tunisia 1942-1943, 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: 100 ft; Running time: 1 min
  • Notes: The dope sheet contains notes on Sergeant Boetel Andre and his escape from the Germans at Stuttgart.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    AYY 370/3/3

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