FLEET COMBAT CAMERA TEAM (FCCT) TAPE 43 [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: FLEET COMBAT CAMERA TEAM (FCCT) TAPE 43 [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: BFV 172
  • Other titles: BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Eagle VCP operations with members of the Royal Regiment of Wales and the Iraqi Police Tactical Support Unit (TSU) outside Basra (continued).
  • Description: START 00:00:00 00:00:45 A checkpoint is deployed on road outside Basra; cars and people are searched. 00:03:52 Two Army still photographers (one male, one female) pose for the camera, smile and blow kisses. Close-up of Iraqi car number plate. 00:04:11 British soldiers at roadside monitor the TSU's vehicle checkpoint. 00:05:29 British Land Rover patrol drives up and stops. 00:06:22 TIMECODE RESET. 00:00:00 Chinook retrieves the VCP personnel; aerial views from the helicopter. Crews disembark to a further location where they keep watch, guns raised, by a shallow waterway. 00:03:29 British soldier explains the situation (checking out graves reported by locals). Local men dig at one site; second group go to another site ready to dig. Soldiers line up along the bank of the waterway and keep watch. Children on the opposite bank clap hands and wave to the camera. The soldiers continue waiting. 00:09:36 Colour Sergeant Darryl Robbins (?) of the Royal Regiment of Wales who discusses his role as of the training team of the TSU; he also talks about the current search for the alleged graves. 00:12:22 British soldiers stand by roadside and keep watch. Chinook flies in and lands, taking the Army and TSU personnel away. Soldiers disembark at Basra and the helicopter departs. 00:14:07 Fresh squad of TSU members waits on the roadside. END 00:14:25
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: BFV 172
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM
  • Featured Period:
  • Production Date: 2004-01-18
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Fleet Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Regiment of Wales (24th/41st Foot) (regiment/service) Iraqi Police Service, Tactical Support Unit (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Basra, Iraq (geography) Operation Telic, Iraq War 2003-2009 (event) British Army post-2000 (theme) Iraq post-2003 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: Mini-DV Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Tape length: 63; Running time: 21 mins
  • HD Media:
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    BFV 172

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    BFV 107 (EAGLE VEHICLE CHECKPOINT OPERATIONS WITH MEMBERS OF 20 BRIGADE AND THE IRAQI POLICE TACTICAL SUPPORT UNIT (TSU), BASRA AREA (TAPE 2) [Allocated Title]) BFV 173 (FLEET COMBAT CAMERA TEAM (FCCT) TAPE 44 [Allocated Title])
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