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Summary: Scenes in the Odon Valley during Operation Epsom.
Description: I. At the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry's harbour near Cheux, a gunner in the machine gun 'pulpit' of an M5 halftrack blazes away with a Browning .50 calibre machine gun at a Luftwaffe fighter flying overhead. An ammunition carrier or truck hit by German mortar fire blazes away in the middle of a Sherman tank harbour. Ammunition stored inside a burning Churchill tank or AVRE begins to explode near a Stuart V tank hastily abandoned by its crew (?)
II. Two Morris Quad artillery tractors from either the 151st Field Regiment Royal Artillery or from one of 15th (Scottish) Division's three field artillery regiments and two 2nd FFY (?) Sherman ARVs are seen parked near the Caen-Villers-Bocage railway line in Colleville. Nineteen sullen and disdainful- looking Hitlerjugend prisoners are escorted to the rear from Tourville by four Scots soldiers (2nd Gordon Highlanders or 2nd Argylls); one of the escorts stops an ambulance jeep belonging to the 2nd Battalion Gordon Highlanders on its journey to the front.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Grant, Ian James1917-04-16Family origin: Edinburgh, Scotland (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Yeomanry, Fife and Forfar, 2 (regiment/service)
British Army, Gordon Highlanders, 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, 2nd Battalion (?) (regiment/service)
German Waffen-SS & SS Panzer Div 12 (Hitlerjugend) (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, British - funnies: Churchill AVRE & [wrecked] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M3A3 Stuart V & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - halftrack: M5 & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman ARV & [British] (object name)
transport, British military - prime mover: Morris Quad artillery tractor (object name)
transport, British military - ambulance: ambulance jeep (object name)
prisoners of war, German - movement (object name)
weapons, United States - smallarm (mounted): Browning Cal .50 machine gun & [British] (object name)
combat, British - mortar bombardment [I] (object name)
combat, British - anti-aircraft (object name)
01/5(4-16).232 [ Operation Epsom] (event)
Cheux, Calvados, France (geography)
Colleville-sur-Orne, Calvados, France (geography)
Tourville-sur-Odon, Calvados, France (geography)
