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Title:PREPARATIONS FOR THE ASSAULT ON HOTTOT (PART 3) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 78-2
Other titles:
Summary: Elements of the 8th Armoured Brigade move up to join 231st Brigade for its assault on Hottot.
Description: A Sherman ARV from the REME recovery section in the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry (SRY) HQ squadron motors along a tank track marked by white tape to join other AFVs heading along the Caen-St Lo road outside Tilly-sur- Seulles. Two heavily-camouflaged Shermans from the SRY's 'C' squadron (?) follow in their wake.
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, Bde 231 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 8 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, Yeomanry, Sherwood Rangers, Squadron C (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman ARV & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] & [camouflaged] (object name)
operations, British military - movement (object name)
Hottot-Les-Bagues, Calvados, France (geography)
Caen-Saint Lo Road, Tilly-sur-Seulles, Calvados, France (geography)