Title:THE 43RD (WESSEX) DIVISION TAKES PART IN 30TH CORPS' ADVANCE TOWARDS AUNAY-SUR-ODON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 109-3
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Summary: 43rd (Wessex) Division's troops take part in stubborn fighting south of Cahagnes on the road to Aunay-sur-Odon.
Description: The crew of a Diamond T wrecker lorry attempts to clear away a disabled carrier which is blocking a street in the battered village of Cahagnes. A 13/18th Hussars (?) Firefly tank trails a flag of dust as it rumbles through the village. Two 1st Worcester Regiment riflemen examine what appears to be a 2.0cm Flak 30 cannon mounted on a field carriage for use against armoured vehicles. Four infantrymen from the same battalion search for snipers among ruined cottages in Benneville. In a field nearby, the corpse of a Wehrmacht NCO wearing the 2nd Class Iron Cross is found. A group of some twenty Wehrmacht prisoners are assembled in Cahagnes before being marched off to POW cages. One of 65th Anti-Tank Regiment RA's M10 Achilles 17-pounder SPGs and a 13/18th Hussars (?) Sherman pound the dust as they roll through Cahagnes. An injured horse stands motionless in a garage forecourt as flies collect around a gaping wound in the unfortunate animal's hindquarters.
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: British Army, Hussars, 13/18 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 8 (regiment/service)
British Army, Worcestershire Regiment, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 43 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 7 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde 214 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - SPG: M10 Achilles (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman Firefly & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman (object name)
animals, mammals: horse (object name)
transport, United States military - truck, special: Diamond T 6x6 wrecker (object name)
casualties, German dead - battlefield (object name)
prisoners of war (object name)
weapons, German - gun: 2.0 cm Flak 30 (object name)
Operation Bluecoat, Mont Pinçon 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
Normandy, France (geography)
