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Title:BRITISH MILITARY TRAFFIC COPES WITH FLOODS ON THE ROADS IN NORMANDY (PART 3) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 92-3
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Summary: Additional coverage of military traffic coping with poor road conditions in the Odon valley after the July 20th rainstorm.
Description: Vehicles from 43rd (Wessex) Division, 34th Tank Brigade and 3rd AGRA units negotiate a pot-holed and partly-flooded road at Marcelet while 5.5-inch guns from a 3rd AGRA medium regiment bombard German positions opposite 12th Corps from gun lines nearby; among the vehicles seen here are a CMP water truck and a CMP water trailer from 179th Field Regiment RA and 4th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry respectively, a Humber scout car ("Sergeant Murphy") from 153rd RAC's HQ, a jeep, a Humber light ambulance and a Bedford QL lorry from 129th Field Ambulance RAMC, a captured BMW motorcycle combination (which gets stuck and has to be helped clear) a jeep from 13th Medium Regiment RA, an Albion six-wheeled 3-tonner from an unspecified 43rd Division unit, CMP 3-tonners from 504th and 505th Companies RASC, a Scammell heavy breakdown tractor ("Liberator") and an M5 half-track ("Resper") from 107th and 153rd Battalions RAC respectively, an AEC Matador tractor and a Bedford QLB tractor from 72nd Medium and 110th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiments RA.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Watkins, R V (Production individual)