GENERAL JOHN GALVIN, SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER EUROPE (SACEUR) AND THE ROYAL ANGLIAN REGIMENT DURING EXERCISE WHITE RHINO AND EXERCISE FLYING KEY, WEST GERMANY [Allocated Title]
Title:GENERAL JOHN GALVIN, SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER EUROPE (SACEUR) AND THE ROYAL ANGLIAN REGIMENT DURING EXERCISE WHITE RHINO AND EXERCISE FLYING KEY, WEST GERMANY [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFK 41
Other titles:BRITISH FORCES GERMANY COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Unedited films of General John Galvin giving a press conference in a West German field and visiting British troops during an exercise.
Description: I. Men of the 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment debusing from armoured personnel carriers and taking cover in foxholes. Gazelle helicopters escort a Blackhawk helicopter in to land. General Galvin leaves the helicopter, accompanied by General Sir Brian Kenny and gives an interview to British journalists in a field covering the environmental concerns associated with large military exercises, the unpredictability in the Warsaw Pact countries at the time, the future of women in the military, exercises simulated by computers and the professionalism of the British Army. He then visits men of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment, south of Paderborn.
II. General Galvin speaking to men of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Anglian Regiment on their role during the exercise. He is accompanied by General Sir Peter Inge (Commander in Chief, British Army of the Rhine).
Alternative Title:BRITISH FORCES GERMANY COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]