Title:AN ARMY-AIR CO-OPERATION FLIGHT SEES SERVICE ON 30TH CORPS' SECTOR OF THE NORMANDY BEACH-HEAD [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 83-8
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Summary:
Description: Army ground crew swing-start the propeller of a Taylorcraft Auster belonging to 658 Army AOP Squadron; note the 30th Corps' emblem on its fuselage. It and other spotter 'planes serving with the squadron's 'B' flight take off from their improvised airstrip to spot for artillery over the Brettevillette-Noyers sector of 2nd Army's front.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Leatherbarrow, RichardPrior to the Second World War Leatherbarrow was a portrait photographer. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Armoured Corps, transferring to the Army Film and Photographic Unit in 1943, when he received training at Pinewood. He was one of the cameramen on Juno Beach during the D-Day Landings. (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Army AOP Squadron 658, B Flight (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - light military: Taylorcraft Auster spotter plane (object name)
intelligence, military, British - surveillance: spotter plane (object name)
Bretteville-Noyers, Calvados, France (geography)
