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)
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Keywords: Saint Contest, Calvados, France (geography)
