Title:VISIT OF GENERAL MONTGOMERY [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 509/3
Other titles:AIRBORNE OPERATION [Allocated Title]
BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: General Montgomery addresses the 1st Battalion, Border Regiment and 2nd Battalion, South Staffordshires in Tunisia prior to their departure for the invasion of Sicily.
Airborne mission to Sicily by the same troops and scenes after an operation near Syracuse.
Description: 8 July. General Montgomery addressing the 1st Airborne Division in Kairouan. He stands on a jeep driven by Major-General G F Hopkinson, Commander of the 1st Airborne Division. An officer waves the troops forward. Troops running forward. Montgomery making a speech. Montgomery salutes. In the jeep behind is Major-General F A M Browning, Montgomery addressing the troops. Montgomery salutes as the men cheer.
9 July. Close up of soldier in glider, chewing. Close ups of men cleaning their weapons in the glider during the flight over the Mediterranean. Glider pilots and tug aircraft flying in front. Soldier wearing earphones. The area around the bridge south of Syracuse after its capture. A glider in the foreground.
10 July (?). Men of the 1st Airlanding Brigade on one of the landing craft on which they were evacuated from Syracuse, including the US soldier Staff Sergeant Kyle who volunteered as a co-pilot in one of the gliders. Men on the craft, one is shirtless. The men laughing and chatting. Man drying himself. Men smoking and reading. Others shown who took part in the capture of a 6 gun coastal battery are Brigadier P Hicks, Commander of the 1st Airlanding Brigade; his second in command Colonel Jones; Lieutenant-Colonel Chatterton, commanding the Glider Pilot Regiment and other staff officers.
Alternative Title:AIRBORNE OPERATION [Allocated Title]
BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Fletcher (Captain) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service)
British Army, 1st Airlanding Brigade (regiment/service)
British Army, Army Air Corps, Glider Pilot Regiment, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Border Regiment, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, South Staffordshire Regiment, 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
Montgomery, Bernard Law (person)
Hopkinson, George Frederick (person)
Browning, Frederick Arthur Montague (person)
Hicks, Philip Hugh Whitby (person)
Jones, Osmond Luxmoore (person)
Chatterton, George James Stewart (person)
Kyle (Staff Sergeant) (person)
Keywords: Italy 1939-1945 (theme)
Kairouan, Tunisia (geography)
Sicily, Italy (geography)
Operation Husky, Allied Invasion of Sicily 1943, Italy, Second World War (event)
