Title:OPERATION HAMMER, AL-QURNAH, IRAQ, 2 FEBRUARY 2007 (MASTER) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 865
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Summary: Edited scenes from Operation Hammer, a daylight strike operation on suspected terrorists by the Iraqi Army supported by Danish and British troops; the search takes place in marsh Arab villages near Al-Qurnah.
Description: Interviews with Iraqi Army Special Forces Brigadier (Akeem Hassan ?), Colonel Per Mikkelsen, CO of the Danish Battlegroup, and unnamed, masked Iraqi soldier. Shots of village: British and Iraqi soldiers on patrol. Iraqi soldiers, some of them masked, search houses in the village. Group of Danish Army vehicles and troops who have set up an outer ring around the search area; Brigadier Evans, CO of 19 Light Brigade and Colonel Mikkelsen talk with Iraqi Brigadier Hassan. Iraqi soldiers follow an Iraqi Army vehicle; houses are searched. Further shots of Danish troops and of the three senior officers talking. Cut-away shots of Iraqi soldiers and of an Iraqi Humvee with detainees. Vehicle checkpoint and convoy of Iraqi vehicles.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 865
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2007-02-02
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Mikkelsen, Per (person)
Evans, Tim (person)
British Army (regiment/service)
Iraqi Army (regiment/service)
Royal Danish Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Al-Qurnah, 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: 18 mins
