Title:POLISH ARMOUR ASSEMBLES SOUTH OF CAEN FOR OPERATION 'TOTALISE' [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 116-3
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Summary: Armour and supplies for the 1st Polish Armoured Division move up to their assembly area south-east of Caen prior to taking part in Phase II of 2nd Canadian Corps' Operation "Totalise", an offensive aimed at piercing the 1st SS Panzer Korps' front astride the N158 highway and ultimately capturing Falaise.
Description: Sherman tanks serving with the recently-landed 1st Polish Armoured Division's 1st Armoured Regiment move up to their assembly area in the flat wheatfields beyond Cormelles in the early morning of August 8th 1944. A Polish military policeman directs a line of Fordson three-tonners carrying supplies for the 1st Armoured Regiment to its destination. A calvary, a common sight for Allied troops travelling through the villages and cross-roads of Normandy, is a silent witness to the flow of military traffic to the front.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Connolly, J R (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Military Police (regiment/service)
Polish Armed Forces in the West, 1st Armoured Division (regiment/service)
Canadian Army, Canadian Corps 2 (regiment/service)
Canadian Army, Army 1 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
transport, United States military - truck: Fordson 3-ton 4x4 (object name)
memorials and monuments (object name)
Operation Totalise 1944, Normandy, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
Calvados, France (geography)
Normandy, France (geography)
