Title:SCENES AT ONE OF THE PONTOON BRIDGES LINKING THE ORNE BRIDGEHEAD TO THE REST OF THE ALLIED BEACHHEAD IN NORMANDY [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 86-5
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Summary: Element of the Guards Armoured Division, one of the three armoured formations assigned to 8th Corps for Operation "Goodwood", move up towards one of the congested river crossings into the Orne bridgehead.
Description: Kept in lane by white-tape lane markers, Universal carriers belonging to the 3rd Battalion Irish Guards' support company, Austin K2 ambulances from a Guards or 8th Corps RAMC unit and Cromwell tanks belonging to the 2nd Armoured Recce Battalion Welsh Guards are funnelled across "York II" bridge, a Class 40 Bailey pontoon bridge built to span the Canal de Caen. An AEC armoured command lorry can be seen briefly in the queue of vehicles.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Smales, Edgar Hiram1920-08-071984-09-19 (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Guards Armoured Division (regiment/service)
British Army, Irish Guards, 3rd Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 8 (regiment/service)
British Army, Guards Bde 32 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, British - carrier: Universal (object name)
armour, British - tank: Cromwell (object name)
transport, British military - ambulance: Austin K2 3-ton 4x2 ambulance (object name)
transport, British military - truck, special: AEC 4x4 command truck (object name)
engineering, military, British: Class 40 Bailey bridge 'York II (object name)
01/5(4-16).233 [ Operation Goodwood] (event)
Canal de Caen A La Mer, Benouville, Calvados, France (geography)
