Title:ROAD CLEARANCE, CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR IN NORMANDY (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 54-3
Other titles:
Summary: Additional and complementary coverage of road-widening work on the Colleville-sur-Orne - St Aubin-d'Arquenay road.
Description: Sergeant Gross's cue card is seen on his jeep's engine bonnet along with a captured Mauser Kar 98K rifle held in place by clips. Two labourers from 50th Company Pioneer Corps break up quarry stones with sledgehammers on a stretch of road which has been prepared for widening; a steamroller rolls them flat before the tarmac is laid. At a quarry nearby, men serving with a 1st Corps sapper unit feed stones into a stonecrusher.
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, Royal Pioneer Corps, Coy 50 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, Army Film and Photographic Unit (regiment/service)
Keywords: engineering, military, British: road building (object name)
engineering, military, British: road repair (object name)
equipment, British military - engineering: stonecrusher (object name)
equipment, British military - engineering: sledgehammer (object name)
transport, British military - engineering: steamroller (object name)
weapons, German - smallarm: Mauser Kar 98K rifle & [captured] (object name)
Second World War, North West Europe & Operation Overlord & 21/6/1944 (event)
Colleville-sur-Orne-Saint Aubin-d'Arquenay Road, Calvados, France (geography)
