Title:BRITISH TROOPS CONSOLIDATE THEIR HOLD ON MONT PINCON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 120-2
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Summary: Mont Pincon remains firmly in 30th Corps' possession as the advance continues in a south-easterly direction towards Condé-sur-Noireau and Orne river.
Description: Troops from the RAF Regiment explore the underground passages and concrete bunkers of a German radar station built into the summit of Mont Pincon. A RAF sergeant climbs up one of the radar masts. In the battle-scarred village of Le Plessis - Grimoult, finally captured by the 5th DCLI on the night of August 7th, a once-lethal early-model Königstiger from the 503rd Heavy Tank Battalion allows M5 half-tracks from the 12th Battalion King's Royal Rifle Corps (?) to pass by unharmed. Beyond the village in open country, a troop of Sexton 25-pounder self-propelled guns serving with the 86th (East Anglian and Hertfordshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA fires a barrage of high explosive shells on German positions lying in the path of 50th (Northumbrian) Division's advance towards St Pierre la Vielle.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Carpenter, L (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force, RAF Regt (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 8 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, German - tank: Konigstiger (Porsche) (object name)
armour, British - SPG: Sexton 25-pounder (object name)
Operation Bluecoat, Mont Pinçon 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
Normandy, France (geography)
