Title:WRECKED BRITISH AND GERMAN TANKS IN THE RUINS OF LINGEVRES (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 52-4
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Summary: Evidence of heavy fighting between the 50th (Northumbrian) Division and the 130th 'Panzerlehr' Division is found in Lingevres, a village on the Caen-St Lo road captured on June 14th 1944.
Description: The cameraman surveys the extent of the destruction in the village caused mainly by British artillery bombardment; two wrecked (?) Universal carriers lie among the ruins. A sign on the wall at the centre of Lingevres gives the distances to neighbouring villages and Bordeaux. Tank casualties from both sides are found in and around the village; a knocked-out Panther Ausf A and the charred hulk of a Sherman tank from 4/7th Doctoragoon Guards' 'A' Squadron lie a few yards from each other on the village green by Lingevres' undamaged 1914-1918 war memorial. Traffic - most notably a DR (despatch rider) and a Universal carrier detachment from the 1st Battalion Hampstead Regiment - heads through the village past the two wrecks. A short distance away on the Caen-St Lo road, two more Panther Ausf A tanks successfully attacked by the Doctoragoon Guards' 'A' Squadron lie forlornly by the roadside. A shrapnel-peppered sign greets all who enter the village.
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Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:A70 52-4
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1944-06-20
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Parkinson (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Hampstead Regiment, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Dragoon Guards 4/7, Squadron A (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, British - carrier: Universal (object name)
armour, German - tank: Panther Ausf A & [wrecked] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [wrecked] (object name)
buildings, French - monumental: war memorial (object name)
destruction, French military - aimed: artillery bombardment (object name)
Lingèvres, Calvados, France (geography)
