Title:TANKS MOVE UP TO THE FRONT IN THE BOCAGE (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 119-3
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: Sherman and Firefly tanks belonging to the 2nd Armoured Battalion Irish Guards and Stuart (Honey) light tanks from the battalion's recce. troops plough their way from La Marvindiere along dusty tracks and sunken lanes and through orchards and meadows to La Barbiere where they will relieve the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment, an 11th Armoured Division unit. Of note are both the thickly-overgrown 'bocage' countryside and a steel 'prong' attachment fitted onto the bows of one Sherman tank seen here which enables it to slice through hedgerows and earth banks with comparative ease.
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, Irish Guards, Armoured 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Guards Armoured Division (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 8 (regiment/service)
British Army, Guards Bde Gp 32 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
Stuart VI light tank (object name)
Operation Bluecoat, Mont Pinçon 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
Normandy, France (geography)
