Title:THE 4TH CANADIAN ARMOURED DIVISION LIBERATES THE TOWN OF BROGLIE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 135-6
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Summary: The citizens of Broglie greet armoured units spearheading 2nd Canadian Corps' advance to the lower Seine as they race through the town.
Description: The machine-gunner/assistant driver of a Sherman tank belonging to the 22nd Armoured Regiment (The Canadian Grenadier Guards) is given a glass of wine to drink by a Frenchwoman during a pause in the advance. FFI volunteers and townspeople gather in small groups in the rain to greet the crews of Shermans from the same regiment as they motor through Broglie; all the tanks seen here have spare track links (including some 'borrowed' from a Panther or Tiger tank) draped over their bow armour and turrets. Elements of the 22nd Armoured Regiment's headquarters in the form of Humber and Ford Lynx (?) scout cars, a DR (despatch rider) and a CMP 15-cwt truck drive past; civilians greet the crew of a Stuart V (Honey) tank from the regiment's recce troop (note the Priest 'Kangaroo' APC partly visible in the background). German POWs are delivered to an improvised cage (?) in a White scout car.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Johnson, John Norman (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Canadian Army, Canadian Armoured Div 4 (regiment/service)
British Army, Armoured Bde 4 (regiment/service)
Canadian Army, Grenadier Guards, Canadian, Armoured Regt 22 (regiment/service)
Canadian Army, Canadian Corps 2 (regiment/service)
Free French Forces, Forces Francaises de l'Interieur (regiment/service)
Keywords: transport, Canadian military - truck: CMP truck (object name)
armour, British - armoured car: Daimler scout car & [Canadian] (object name)
armour, British - armoured car: Humber scout car & [Canadian] (object name)
armour, United States - armoured car: M7 Priest Kangaroo APC & [Canadian] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M3 Stuart V & [Canadian] (object name)
operations, Canadian military - movement: road (object name)
prisoners of war, German - detention: cage (object name)
law and order, Allied - liberation: Broglie (object name)
Broglie, Eure, France (geography)