OPERATION EPSOM - CAPTURE OF RAURAY SPUR (PART 5) [Allocated Title]


  • Title: OPERATION EPSOM - CAPTURE OF RAURAY SPUR (PART 5) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 60-5
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  • Summary: Something of the claustrophobic nature of the Normandy campaign can be gleaned from this film showing 49th (West Riding) Division troops 'mopping up' after the capture of Rauray.
  • Description: Two riflemen from the 2nd Battalion Kensington Regiment's 'C' Company escort a captive Hitlerjugend panzer grenadier from Rauray. In a search for snipers, a small team of infantrymen shoots up the roof of a farmhouse, then throws a grenade inside the building and sprays a tree with machine gun bullets. An M10 self-propelled gun belonging to the 55th Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery overtakes three 2nd Kensington's 'C' Company carriers; in the background can be seen a knocked-out Tiger Ausf E tank. Infantrymen belonging to the 1st Tyneside Scottish Regiment file along the sunken road leading towards Rauray and head for a nearby farmhouse; Sergeant Christie, Army Film and Photographic Unit, can be seen taking 'stills' as the Tyneside Scottish move up. Two Sherman tanks from the 4/7th Dragoon Guards cautiously advance towards Rauray past the abandoned 501st SS Heavy Tank Battalion Tiger tank.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-06-28
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Ginger (Sergeant) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Christie (Sergeant) (person) British Army, London Regiment, Bn 13, 2nd Battalion, Coy C (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Artillery, AT Regiment 55 (regiment/service) British Army, Black Watch, Tyneside Scottish (regiment/service) British Army, Dragoon Guards, 7 (regiment/service) British Army, Army Film and Photographic Unit (regiment/service) German Waffen-SS & SS Panzer Div 12 (Hitlerjugend) (regiment/service) German Waffen-SS & SS Panzer Grenadier Regt 26, Bn 3 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: armour, United States - SPG: M10 Achilles (?) & [British] (object name) armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name) armour, British - carrier (object name) armour, German - tank: Pzkpfw VI Ausf E & Tiger I (object name) journalism and record, British - photographer (object name) combat, British (object name) weapons, British - grenade (object name) prisoners of war, German - movement (object name) operations, British military - movement: road (object name) 01/5(4-16).232 [ Operation Epsom] (event) Rauray, Calvados, France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 199 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • Notes: Summary: the Hitlerjugend prisoner seen here was from the 3/26 SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment; the Tiger belonged to the SS tank unit's No 1 Company Remarks: good action footage
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