Title:OPERATION STERLING, IRAQ, 1 APRIL 2006 (TAPE 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 745
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Summary: Scenes from Operation Sterling, a search and arrest operation involving Coalition Forces (British and US Armies) and the Iraqi Army on suspect locations in Basra.
Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:00:30 Image intensifier shots of convoy at helicopter landing site with Army vehicles parked in a line.
00:03:13 Helicopter flies overhead (barely visible in the image intensifier grain). It comes in to land alongside the parked convoy before taking off again.
00:06:00 Soldiers prepare at the roadside.
00:07:15 View from top cover of Land Rover convoy on the move.
00:07:06 Arrival; troops disembark. Various wildlife (frogs etc) can be heard). Suspect house is approached by large group of US soldiers. Two soldiers crouch by a car, others make their way forward on foot and wait. (Dark, confused shots as the cameraman makes his way forward.)
00:17:24 Soldiers crouching by Land Rovers; further shots of group making its way forward.
00:18:49 Standing by outside target house; soldiers pause.
00:19:49 Further confused shots as cameraman moves. Group of soldiers move forward quietly; they have blindfolded Iraqi prisoners with them. Other soldiers keep watch.
END 00:22:08
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 745
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2006-04-01
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production sponsor)
Wenham, C (LA[Phot]) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
United States Army (regiment/service)
Iraqi Army (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: DVCam
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 40; Running time: 22 mins
