Title:ARMOURED UNITS MOVE UP TO THE FRONT FOR OPERATION 'GOODWOOD' [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 85-4
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: Universal carriers (1st Motor Battalion Grenadier Guards), a Valentine 'Scissors' bridgelayer (possibly 2nd Armoured Battalion Grenadier Guards), two Shermans (5th Guards Armoured Brigade HQ), two Cromwells, one Stuart VI and a Staghound armoured car (Guards Armoured Division HQ), several M10 Achilles 17-pounder self- propelled guns (21st Anti-Tank Regiment RA), a Humber scout car and another Cromwell tank (2nd Armoured Recce Battalion Welsh Guards 'A' squadron), several Loyd carriers and 6-pounder guns (1st Battalion Welsh Guards) and a squadron of Sherman Crab flail tanks (22nd Dragoons 'B' squadron) move up in hot and extremely dusty conditions towards the Orne river crossings as Operation "Goodwood" gets under way.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Collins (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service)
British Army, Welsh Guards, Armoured Recce 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Guards Armoured Division (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 8 (regiment/service)
British Army, Dragoons, 22 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 30 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 79 (regiment/service)
British Army, Grenadier Guards, Motor 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, Guards, 5 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, British - carrier: Universal (object name)
armour, British - funnies: Valentine bridgelayer (object name)
armour, British - tank: Cromwell (object name)
Stuart VI light tank (object name)
armour, British - armoured car: Staghound (object name)
armour, United States - SPG: M10 Achilles (object name)
armour, British - armoured car: Humber scout car (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman Crab & [British] (object name)
Normandy, France (geography)