FIGHTING ON THE MEUSE-ESCAUT CANAL LINE IN NORTHERN BELGIUM [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: FIGHTING ON THE MEUSE-ESCAUT CANAL LINE IN NORTHERN BELGIUM [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 160-2
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  • Summary: 30th Corps prepares its formations for Operation 'Garden'.
  • Description: Gunners belonging to the 55th Field Regiment's 439th Battery RA open fire with their 25-pounder gun during a 'softening-up' bombardment on units of the 1st Parachute Army defending the Meuse-Escaut canal line and territory north of the de Groote Barrier bridgehead. Sappers repair the worn wooden parquet surface of the German built trestle bridge (Joe's Bridge) over the Meuse-Escaut canal as units from 50th Division's 231st Brigade file into the de Groote Barrier bridgehead; simultaneously units of the Guards Armoured Division march southward out of the salient they had won.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: A70 160-2
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-09-15
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Ginger (Sergeant) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service) British Army, Guards Armoured Division (regiment/service) British Army, Div 50 (regiment/service) British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service) British Army, Infantry Bde 231 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: weapons, - gun: 25-pounder field gun (object name) armour, British - carrier: Universal (object name) engineering, military, German: wooden trestle bridge & [captured] (object name) combat, British - artillery bombardment (object name) Meuse-Escaut Junction (Canal), Belgium (geography) Belgium (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 163 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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