Title:ACTIVITIES NORTH OF CAEN, JUNE - EARLY JULY 1944 (PART 5) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 47-4
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Summary: Armour returns from 3rd Division's front north of Caen.
Description: A troop of Sherman tanks belonging to the Staffordshire Yeomanry's 'C' Squadron returns from 185th Brigade's sector of 3rd Division's front for rest and recuperation. An M5 halftrack from the Yeomanry's Light Aid Detachment leads a Sherman ARV and other gun tanks along a tank track between Beuville and Colleville-sur-Orne.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Gross, A C (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Bde, Armoured, 27 (regiment/service)
British Army, Yeomanry, Staffordshire, Light Aid Detachment (regiment/service)
British Army, Yeomanry, Staffordshire, Squadron C (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman ARV & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - halftrack: M5 & [British] (object name)
operations, British military - movement: armour (object name)
Second World War, North West Europe & Operation Overlord & 15/6/1944 (event)
Caen, Calvados, France (geography)
