Title:LANDING AND OCCUPATION - PANTELLERIA [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 477/3/2
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Troops of the 1st British Division make an assault landing on Pantelleria.
Description: Panning shot from three Landing Craft Infantry along the harbour front. Panning shot past British infantry to Italian prisoners and a white flag flying on a truck. Sherwood Foresters moving up with dense smoke rising in the background. Four men of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment brewing tea. They are, left to right: Private A Guyon of Walthamstow; Lance-Corporal V Bird of Croydon; Private R Johnson of Dartford, Kent and Private C J Mann of Dartford, Kent. A blazing petrol dump. Italian prisoners being marched back. Men of the Duke of Wellington's Regiment manning the lip of a bomb crater overlooking the blazing petrol dump. Men of the Sherwood Foresters moving up to make an assault on the hill feature known as The Twins, with Semaphore Hill in the background. Sherwood Foresters moving up in single file along a track bordered by loose stone field walls. Panning shot of the Sherwood Foresters moving up on The Twins. Panning shot along the landscape from Semaphore Hill to Midway Hill. Abandoned petrol casks as the aerodrome. Close up of a petrol cask with Aeronautica printed on the end.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
