Summary: As the struggle to close the Falaise 'gap' draws to an end, elements of the 11th Armoured Division drive eastwards from Argentan in the wake of the fleeing remnants of the German 5th Panzer Army and 7th Army.
Description: On the outskirts of Argentan, 30th Corps vehicles pass makeshift German direction signs scrawled on a wall pointing the way out of the Falaise 'gap'. Nine kilometres further each along the N24 bis, motorised infantry belonging to the 8th Battalion the Rifle Brigade drive in the rain through the village of Le Bourg St Leonard where units from the 2nd French Armoured Division and the 15/19th Hussars have met up.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Covey (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Free French Forces, Div, Armoured, French, 2 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 29 Gp (regiment/service)
British Army, Hussars, 15/19 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde 159 Gp (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 11 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
British Army, Rifle Brigade, 8th Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - halftrack: M5 & [British] (object name)
signs, military and civilian (object name)
Argentan, Orne, France (geography)
Orne (River), France (geography)