THE 59TH (STAFFORDSHIRE) DIVISION GOES INTO ACTION NORTH OF CAEN ON THE SECOND DAY OF OPERATION "CHARNWOOD" (PART 1) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: THE 59TH (STAFFORDSHIRE) DIVISION GOES INTO ACTION NORTH OF CAEN ON THE SECOND DAY OF OPERATION "CHARNWOOD" (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 75-1
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  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Hit by anti-tank artillery, a Sherman tank (East Riding Yeomanry's 'A' squadron) 'brews-up' outside St Contest; an infantryman (1/7th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment's 'D' company?) with a torn sleeve and possibly wounded, crawls through the wheat in the foreground. Two HQ troop (?) Shermans and an OP carrier (?), with a Browning .50 calibre machine gun, shelter casualties into a CMP 3-ton ambulance (59th (Staffordshire) or 3rd Canadian Division) which then drives away. II. Explosions appear as Churchill AVREs 'petard' positions held by 25th SS Panzer-Grenadier Regiment around the château at Galmanche (?); a Firefly (ERY's 'C' squadron) joins in the bombardment - in the foreground is an abandoned (?) 17-pounder gun (68th Anti-Tank Regiment RA ?). The petard bombardment sends explosions into the air; an M5 OP or command half-truck and two Shermans close in on their objective. A dead 'Hitlerjugend' panzergrenadier awaits burial in Galmanche (?). Infantrymen (2/5th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers) march towards St Contest with detachments from 211th Field Ambulance RAMC's No 6 section and their own carrier platoon and transport echelon.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: A70 75-1
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-07-09
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film Unit (Production company) Watkins, R V (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: Saint Contest, 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 Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 275 ft; Running time: 3 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    A70 75-1

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