Title:THE 3RD DIVISION GOES INTO ACTION NORTH OF CAEN ON THE FIRST DAY OF OPERATION "CHARNWOOD" (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 71-3
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Summary: Scenes on 185th Brigade's sector of 3rd Division's front at Lebisey.
Description: Smoke rises from fires started by a British artillery bombardment aimed at neutralising German observation posts in Schneider steelworks at Les Colombelles; note the German anti-glider stakes planted in the wheat-field in the foreground. Wearing long-length camouflaged combat jackets, two soldiers from the 31st Jäger Regiment are brought back from Lebisey Wood, as prisoners of war, by two British motorcycle despatch riders after their capture by the 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles. A section of infantry from the 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment makes its way along the Caen-Bieville road towards 185th Brigade's forward positions. Two more Luftwaffe ground soldiers are brought back after their capture by the Warwickshires by an infantryman armed with a No 4 Mark I T rifle fitted with telescopic sights. Five Warwickshire infantrymen, anticipating German shelling, dash across-country to their battalion's front. German shells aimed at disrupting 185th Brigade's progress towards Point 64 fall in a field several hundred yards from the cameraman.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film Unit (Production company)
Gross, A C (Production individual)
