Title:MINE-CLEARANCE ON 59TH (STAFFORDSHIRE) DIVISION'S FRONT NEAR VILLERS-BOCAGE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 113-6
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Summary:
Description: A platoon of sappers from 510th Field Company (?) RE equipped with mine-detecting apparatus sweep the ground for landmines around a knocked-out Panther Ausf. G tank in the vicinity of Villy-Bocage (?) on 197th Brigade's front north-east of Villers-Bocage.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Gordon, J (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde 197 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 59 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 12 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, German - tank: Panther Ausf G (object name)
equipment, British military - damage control: mine detector (object name)
operations, British military - mines: clearance (object name)
Operation Bluecoat, Mont Pinçon 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
Normandy, France (geography)