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Title:30TH CORPS ADVANCES TOWARDS MONT PINCON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 113-17
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Summary: Armoured units spearhead 30th Corps' two-pronged drive south-eastwards from Caumont to Le Mesnil-Auzouf and Aunay-sur- Odon.
Description: A Churchill AVRE from the 79th Armoured Division's 1st Assault Brigade RE rumbles out of the village of Le Mesnil-Auzouf. A shot-up Kübelwagen and a burnt-out SdKfz 250/1 half-track from the 21st Panzer Division (?) are found in a ditch by the N477 highway between Le Mesnil-Auzouf and Jurques; the driver of the Kübelwagen, unable to abandon his vehicle, has been burnt to a crisp. Further along the road a column of Sherman tanks (either from the 8th Armoured Brigade or 7th Armoured Division's HQ troop) and a lone Morris Bofors self-propelled gun passes an abandoned Sherman tank which has had its gun barrel shot away. At the cross-roads village of Jurques, 30th Corps sappers probe the roadside verges for mines; a two-man team of minehunters unearths two Teller mines. M10 Wolverines from the 65th (Norfolk Yeomanry) Anti-Tank Regiment RA bypass a crater blocking the road from Jurques to Aunay-sur-Odon.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Parkinson (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 79 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 8 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, British - funnies: Churchill AVRE (object name)
transport, German military - car: Kübelwagen (object name)
casualties, German dead - battlefield (object name)
equipment, British military - damage control: mine detector (object name)
operations, British military - mines: clearance (object name)
armour, United States - SPG: M10 Wolverine (object name)
Teller mine (object name)
Operation Bluecoat, Mont Pinçon 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
Normandy, France (geography)