Title:OPERATION BUZZARD, NETHERLANDS BATTLEGROUP, OCTOBER 2004 (TAPE 3) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 45
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Members of the Royal Netherlands Army on operations near the Iraqi-Saudi border.
Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:00:06 Views from top cover of moving vehicle during desert border patrol (very dusty).
00:00:20 On desert firing range, Dutch soldiers train Iraqi Border Police in use of weapons. Targets (pictures of a dog with a bone!) are inspected. Policemen use telescopic sights. Extended range sequences.
00:20:30 Plastic bottles are added as additional targets; nearly all are hit with accuracy.
00:26:54 TIMECODE RESET.
00:00:00 Iraqi Border Police sit in their pick-up truck; one makes a radio call, as does a Dutch soldier. (They are testing the radio equipment installed on the previous tape.
00:01:18 Further range scenes; green smoke flares are set off. C17 Globemaster aircraft flies overhead and parachutes a package; this is opened and contains cardboard crates of bottled water.
END 00:03:56
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 45
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2004-10-14
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)
