Title:GENERAL MONTGOMERY VISITS HIS FLYING FORTRESS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 394/1/5
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: I. Miscellaneous shots taken on the road to Sousse.
II. The Commander-in-Chief of the Eighth Army with an aeroplane he won in a bet (see notes).
Description: I. Burning enemy transport and dead bodies on the road.
II. Men standing around the Flying Fortress. General Montgomery sits in the plane. Views of the interior and exterior. Montgomery leaves the plane. An American officer leaves the plane. Montgomery under the plane talking to a man. Montgomery with a group of men under the plane. Montgomery chatting to the American crew. He shakes hands. He enters the plane again.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Acland, A W (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Montgomery, Bernard Law (person)
British Army, Eighth Army (regiment/service)
United States Army Air Forces (regiment/service)
Keywords: Tunisia (geography)
Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
