OPERATION BUZZARD, NETHERLANDS BATTLEGROUP, OCTOBER 2004 (TAPE 1) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: OPERATION BUZZARD, NETHERLANDS BATTLEGROUP, OCTOBER 2004 (TAPE 1) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: BFV 43
  • Other titles: BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Members of the Royal Netherlands Army at a desert encampment near the Iraqi-Saudi border.
  • Description: START 00:00:00 Bars 00:00:20 Soldier struggles (alone) to remove a bagged tent from the back of lorry. Camera pulls back to show small encampment with two tents and various Royal Netherlands Army vehicles. Close-up of Geländewagen with gun mounting. Radio truck with aerial mast. Geländewagen on patrol. 00:03:47 Various shots around the encampment including personnel at work, vehicles (radio car, fuel bowser, generator lorry etc). Tents are erected. Further shot of radio truck with aerial mast. A smaller aerial is erected on the roof of another truck. Camouflaged truck. 00:07:34 Chinook helicopter flies in with a patrol vehicle as an underslung load. It lands (disappearing into a cloud of dust). As the dust clears, a bowser drives alongside. Soldiers attend to the vehicle that has been dropped in. Packs and equipment are unloaded. Geländewagen is driven into the back of the Chinook which takes off again. 00:17:12 Soldier carrying out vehicle maintenance work takes a break. Personnel gather around a camouflaged vehicle (Dutch, but with a union flag). 00:17:45 Extended static shot of desert ridge; at 00:19:30 there is a large controlled explosion behind the ridge. (Detonation of abandoned Iraqi ammunition.) 00:19:57 Chinook helicopter in desert; it takes off. Nearby, soldiers relax under a makeshift basha attached to a patrol vehicle. 00:23:03 Convoy of vehicles at the encampment, including a Pasi armoured vehicle, a battlefield ambulance and various trucks. Chinook flies in and lands; it is refuelled from bowser. 00:27:05 Interior of bowser; a Geländewagen is secured into place. The helicopter takes off; views from the rear door show the encampment below and the helicopter's shadow. Door gunner sits at his position. Various views inside the helicopter. 00:33:06 Landing: Geländewagen is unchained and reverses off; soldiers climb out after it and climb into the vehicle, which then drives off across the desert onto a ridge. Chinook flies overhead. 00:35:52 Bowser is winched by a mobile crane END 00:36:44
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: BFV 43
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM
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  • Production Date: 2004-10-11
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Dutch army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Iraq (geography) Iraq post-2003 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: DVCam Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Tape length: 40; Running time: 36 mins
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    BFV 43

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    BFV 57 (OPERATION BUZZARD, NETHERLANDS BATTLEGROUP, OCTOBER 2004 (ROUGH EDIT) [Allocated Title]) BFV 44 (OPERATION BUZZARD, NETHERLANDS BATTLEGROUP, OCTOBER 2004 (TAPE 2) [Allocated Title]) BFV 45 (OPERATION BUZZARD, NETHERLANDS BATTLEGROUP, OCTOBER 2004 (TAPE 3) [Allocated Title])
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