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Title:MEDIUM ARTILLERY GOES INTO ACTION ON 12TH CORPS' FRONT (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 87-4
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: Additional coverage of Sergeant Gross's material showing a gun detachment from the 67th (Suffolk) Regiment RA's 231 Battery firing a 5.5 inch gun on targets in the Evrecy - Hill 113 sector opposite 12th Corps front.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Watkins, R V (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 12 (regiment/service)
Keywords: weapons, British - gun: 5.5-inch gun (object name)
combat, British - artillery bombardment (object name)
Normandy, France (geography)
Notes: Note: See A70 87-3 for virtually identical footage and refer to A70 83-7 and 85-7 for footage showing 12th Corps' formations in action near Evrecy, A70 76-4, 5 and 6, 94-6 and 7, 96-2 and 3 for material showing the 43rd (Wessex) Division in the Hill 112 sector of the Odon valley and refer generally to footage shot during Operation "Epsom".
Remarks: Good footage. Best seen with the items of ciné footage listed above, notably A70 87-3
Documentation/associated material: for a bibliography, refer to the publications listed in A70 83-7 and 85-7.