Title:30th CORPS FORMATIONS ON THE ISLAND BETWEEN NIJMEGEN AND ARNHEM [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 169-3
Other titles:
Summary: Traffic from the Guards Armoured Division and the 43rd (Wessex) Division moves up to the front on the 'Island' between the Neder Rijn and Waal rivers.
Description: Two Shermans and a Firefly belonging to the 2nd Armoured Battalion Irish Guards rumble along a narrow track through the village of Oosterhout. A half-track belonging to the commander of the 179th Field Regiment RA and several more Irish Guards Shermans overtake a knocked-out German PzKpfw III Ausf J in the village. An Austin K2 ambulance heads back towards Nijmegen along a narrow raised road typical of this part of southern Holland.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Parkinson (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Div 43 (regiment/service)
British Army, Armoured Guards Division (regiment/service)
British Army, Guards Bde Gp (regiment/service)
British Army, Irish Guards, Armoured 2nd Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, German - tank: Pzkpfw III Ausf J & [wrecked] (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman Firefly & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - halftrack: M5 & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
operations, British military - movement (object name)
transport, British military - ambulance: Austin K2 (object name)
Operation Garden 1944, Operation Market Garden 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
Netherlands & Oosterhout (geography)
Netherlands & Neder Rijn (River) (geography)
Netherlands & Waal (River) (geography)
