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Title:ARTILLERY IN ACTION AND MOVING UP; D TROOP ON A PLANE ALERT [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 423/2
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The 1st Division in Tunisia. "D" Troop, 208/58th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment spotting enemy aircraft in Tunisia.
Description: A perfect smoke ring in the sky from an enemy shell burst. A Churchill tank approaching the camera. Two other Churchills with their hulls down, ready to fire. A Churchill tank advancing, with smoke rising beyond a crest from a large shell burst. A six pounder anti-tank crew and gun in the foreground as an enemy shell bursts on the next crest. A Bofors gun of the 90th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment moving up past another stationary Bofors towards the front of the fighting zone down the Medjez salient. A Bofors gun moving away from the camera. Another Bofors moving away from the camera.
A Gun Position Officer (GPO) and spotter searching for aircraft. A plane is spotted and the telescope is manned. Close-up of identification of the plane through the telescope. The GPO gives the alarm. Panning shot from the GPO, past the predictor and height-finder to the 3.7-inch gun. Gun crews run in from all directions to man their instruments. The height-finder in action. Close-up of the Number 1 calling the height from the height-finder. The predictor crew in action. Close-up of the drum rotating on the predictor. Number 5 on the predictor follows the target for elevation. The crew of the Number 3 gun run into the gun pit and prepare for action. The gun is elevated and traversed. Close-up of a round being inserted into the fuse setter. Close-up of the fuse being set. The round is withdrawn from the fuse setter and rammed home. Close-up of the gloved hand of Number 5 ramming home the round and the automatic breech block sliding across. Close-up of Number 3 operating the elevating handle. Close-up of the end of the barrel. The gun is elevated. Rounds of ammunition are laid out and the ammunition Numbers pick up three rounds. The men are shown from the waist down. The men from head to knees. The end of the barrel is elevated.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Radford, John H. B. (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, 1st Division (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, 58th Anti-Aircraft Regiment (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, 90th Anti-Aircraft Regiment (regiment/service)
Keywords: Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)