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Title:SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE TESTING DEVICES FOR DISABLING TANKS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 4322
Other titles:MAJOR C V CLARKE COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Film taken from a Coastal Command Liberator followed by trials of methods of disabling tanks.
Description: I. Shots taken from the cockpit of a Coastal Command Liberator flying over shipping, crossing the coast and landing. Shots on the airfield show the Liberator and its crew and other Liberators flying overhead.
II. In a field an officer prepares a PIAT. The projectile is fired.
III. Film shows an explosion under the left track of a Matilda tank advancing in the distance towards the camera. Officers examine the damage. Another distant explosion is shown, with the resulting (?) damage to the track and bogies of a Churchill tank. A further explosion under an advancing Matilda is shown.
IV. A German Pz IV tank is fired at in the distance. Two soldiers examine the wrecked tank (hits marked with numbers).
Alternative Title:MAJOR C V CLARKE COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]