Title:30TH CORPS CONSOLIDATES ITS GRIP ON MONT PINCON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 120-1
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Summary:
Description: In the village of Le Plessis-Grimoult, a telegraph pole carries German direction signs pointing the way to the 272nd Wehrmacht Infantry Division and 12th SS Panzer Division (Standartenführer Kurt Meyer's) (?) in position south of Caen. Nearby lies a knocked-out 68-ton early-model Königstiger armed with the deadly 8.8cm L/71 gun, capable of destroying any tank in Allied service up to three thousand yards' range. Royal Engineers sweep the village streets for hidden mines and booby-traps. Shells burst in the distance around St Pierre la Vielle as seen from the heather and bracken-covered southern slopes of Mont Pincon. The 13/18th Hussars and 50th (Northumbrian) Division's transport climb up Mont Pincon along the road from Roucamps.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Leatherbarrow, RichardPrior to the Second World War Leatherbarrow was a portrait photographer. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Armoured Corps, transferring to the Army Film and Photographic Unit in 1943, when he received training at Pinewood. He was one of the cameramen on Juno Beach during the D-Day Landings. (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, Hussars, 13/18 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 8 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, German - tank: Konigstiger (Porsche) (object name)
equipment, British military - damage control: mine detector (object name)
operations, British military - mines: clearance (object name)
signs, military and civilian (object name)
Operation Bluecoat, Mont Pinçon 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
Normandy, France (geography)
