Title:"HELL'S HIGHWAY" - VEGHEL AND NISTELRODE (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 173-3
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Summary: Troop movements along sections of 30th Corps' 50-mile 'corridor' in Southern Holland.
Description: I. At Veghel, northbound traffic - a Humber Pullman staff car, a Leyland Retriever lorry, a Ford heavy utility staff car and a Fords on 15cwt truck - crosses the (Zuidwillemsvaart Canal over a bridge) assembled by 101st US Airborne Division combat engineers (seen here being inspected by a British sapper on a raft) while southbound traffic - despatch riders and British and Canadian-manufactured 3- tonners - crosses the 'ophaalbrug' alongside it. A Sexton SPG and a Sherman OP tank (?) from 90th Field Regiment RA crosses the American bridge with a Commer 30cwt truck, a Bedford OY and Austin K5 3-ton lorries and a signals jeep and trailer from 2nd Army and other 50th Northumbrian) Division units. 'Redcap' on point duty by Veghel's war memorial(?) direct traffic - Austin K5 lorries from 524th Company RASC, a 2nd TAF Ford heavy utility staff car, an RE Morris II light recce car and a jeep and CMP 3-tonner from 7th Armoured Division units - past the town's canal harbour.
II. Two Cromwells from the 5th RTR's 'HQ' squadron motor through Nistelrode past two spinning windmills in the background. The cameraman examines one of the Cromwells in detail, focusing on the tank commander speaking down his No. 19
microphone.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Gordon, J (Production individual)
