LARGE NUMBERS OF PRISONERS FROM THE GERMAN ARMED FORCES ARE TAKEN BY BRITISH 2ND ARMY AS THE FIGHTING IN NORMANDY DRAWS TO A CLOSE (PART 4) [Allocated Title]
Title:LARGE NUMBERS OF PRISONERS FROM THE GERMAN ARMED FORCES ARE TAKEN BY BRITISH 2ND ARMY AS THE FIGHTING IN NORMANDY DRAWS TO A CLOSE (PART 4) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 133-5
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Summary:
Description: Covered with blankets and waterproof gas-capes and with turned-up collars to shelter themselves from the rain, German troops taken prisoners on the western fringes of the Falaise 'pocket' are escorted to a divisional POW cage by their 53rd (Welsh) Division captors (seen here on foot and riding in a Bedford 15-cwt truck) from the Bois de Feullet. The procession trudges through the village of Clinchamps where a French family, stony-faced, watches their former occupiers march by on their way to several years of captivity. On noticing the cameraman, several POWs turn round to give a smile and a wave.
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, Corps 12 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 53 (regiment/service)
Keywords: transport, British military - truck: Bedford 15cwt 4x2 truck (object name)
prisoners of war, German - movement (object name)
prisoners of war, German - custody (object name)
Clinchamps-sur-Orne, Calvados, France (geography)
Bois de Feuillet, Seine-et-Marne, France (geography)
rain (concept)