Title:PERSONALITIES AT CASTEL BENITO AERODROME [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 346/2/1
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The General Staffs of the First Army, the American Army and the Eighth Army are given a demonstration at Castel Benito aerodrome of Army Cooperation Command planes being loaded with bombs.
Description: General Montgomery talks to General Paget. General Alexander, General Montgomery and General Bedell Smith, Eisenhower's Chief of Staff and other American officers. Close-up of Montgomery and Bedell Smith. The staff officers watch a 500 pound bomb being loaded onto a Kittyhawk. American and English generals watch a Kittyhawk being re-armed by RAF mechanics. General Sir Oliver Leese, Commander of 30 Corps, looks on.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Flack (Lieutenant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Montgomery, Bernard Law (person)
Paget, Bernard Charles Tolver (person)
Leese, Oliver William Hargreaves (person)
Alexander, Harold (1st Earl Alexander of Tunis) (person)
Bedell-Smith, Walter (person)
British Army, First Army (regiment/service)
British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service)
United States Army (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, Army Cooperation Command (regiment/service)
British Army, XXX Corps (regiment/service)
Keywords: Castel Benito, Libya (geography)
Western Desert 1940-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
