BATTLE PLATOON IN ACTION AND TANK DESTRUCTION [Main Title]

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  • Title: BATTLE PLATOON IN ACTION AND TANK DESTRUCTION [Main Title]
  • Film Number: BTF 113
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  • Summary: Training exercises with the 28th (1st SR) Battalion Kent Home Guard on 29/8/1943.
  • Description: Soundtrack consists purely of martial music, while intertitles describe the action. Film shows a platoon performing an outflanking attack on an "enemy position" through wooded ground, and then knocking out a "tank" (rigged up out of corrugated iron).
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: BTF 113
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (BTF 113)
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1943
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Southern Railway Film Unit (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Home Guard, Bn 28 (Kent 1st SR) (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: combat [simulated], British (object name) training, British - combat (object name) GB, England & Kent (?) (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound
  • Technical Details: Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 883 ft; Running time: 10 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    BTF 113

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