Title:2ND ARMY CONSOLIDATES ITS FRONT BEYOND THE ALBERT CANAL [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 156-5
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: Infantry detachments from the 15th (Scottish) Division's 46th (Highland) Brigade file through the village of Oosterloo on their way up to the Albert Canal to relieve the 50th (Northumbrian) Division in its Gheel bridgehead. Belgian villages watch one of their young lads place a discarded German helmet on the head of an effigy of Hitler hanging from a gallows in Heusden. Two Bedford and Fordson trucks carrying men of the 1st Battalion Hereford Regiment drive along a tree-lined road between Heusden and Peer (?) littered with torn-off branches and wood- splinters and the wreckage of several German lorries (?). An 8.8cm PAK 43 anti-tank gun, one of the Germans' most deadly anti- tank weapons, lies abandoned by the roadside, allowing a Sherman tank from the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry unimpeded passage through the village of Heusden (?).
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Covey (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Bde 46 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 15 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 12 (regiment/service)
British Army, Herefordshire Light Infantry, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Yeomanry, Fife and Forfar, 2 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 29 Gp (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 11 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
Keywords: weapons, German - gun [AT]: 8.8cm PAK 43 (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
