SICILIAN CAMPAIGN - APPROACHING CATANIA [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: SICILIAN CAMPAIGN - APPROACHING CATANIA [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: AYY 512/1/3
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: The 168th Brigade, 90th Royal Artillery in action near Catania.
  • Description: Gun crew traversing and elevating a gun and putting a shell into the breech. The shell going into the breech. The gun firing. A retake of the gun being traversed and elevated. View of Mount Etna. Troops moving forwards. Mount Etna in the background. Panning shot across Catania plain, showing the battlefield with shells bursting in enemy lines and ending on Catania.
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: AYY 512/1/3
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (AYY 512/1/3)
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1943-07-27
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company) Rodwell, K (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, 168th Brigade (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Artillery, 90th Anti-Aircraft Regiment (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Italy 1939-1945 (theme) Catania, Sicily, Italy (geography) Operation Husky, Allied Invasion of Sicily 1943, Italy, Second World War (event)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 100 ft; Running time: 1 min
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    AYY 512/1/3

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