Title:EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL (EOD) TRAINING FOR THE IRAQI CIVIL DEFENCE CORPS (ICDC) NEAR SHAIBAH, IRAQ, 7 APRIL 2004 (TAPE 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 448
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: British explosives experts mentor members of 70th Brigade of the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps in the disposal of unexploded ordnance.
Description: START 01:59:25 Bars.
02:00:00 Interview with one of the British Army mentors.
02:05:40 Group of ICDC members undergo training on the range, piling up and priming with PE4 a stack of disused ordnance (including shells and land mines).
02:09:13 Interview with second British Army mentor.
02:13:53 Interview with Iraqi soldier. Close-up of 70th Brigade shoulder flash at end of interview.
02:18:32 Detonation of ordnance: explosion can be seen in the distance.
02:19:03 Further ordnance (rusted shells) is primed with PE4. Detonator cable is prepared.
02:24:18 Explosion. Shot of range as British soldier goes out to check the site of the detonation.
02:29:05 Further explosion.
02:30:24 Third, much larger, explosion.
END 02:31:03
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 448
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2004-04-07
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (RAF Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
Iraqi Civil Defence Corps, 70th Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: Shaibah, 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: DVCam
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 40; Running time: 31 mins
BFV 447 (EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL (EOD) TRAINING FOR THE IRAQI CIVIL DEFENCE CORPS (ICDC) NEAR SHAIBAH, IRAQ, 7 APRIL 2004 (TAPE 1) [Allocated Title])
BFV 432 (EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL (EOD) TRAINING FOR THE IRAQI CIVIL DEFENCE CORPS (ICDC) AND GRADUATION CEREMONY AT 70 BRIGADE HEADQUARTERS NEAR SHAIBAH, 7 APRIL 2004 [Allocated Title])