Title:THE 43RD (WESSEX) DIVISION GOES INTO ACTION ON THE ROAD TO AUNAY-SUR-ODON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 109-4
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Summary: The 1st Battalion Regiment is seen in action on the Caumont-Aunay-sur-Odon road south of Cahagnes.
Description: One of the battalion's companies takes up defensive positions in a field; carriers and trucks can be seen dispersed along its perimeter, part-camouflaged by overhanging trees and hedgerows. Roots from nearby hedges make the task of digging a slit-trench somewhat arduous and time-consuming. In Benneville, a village situated astride the Caumont - Aunay-sur-Odon road, the 1st Worcester search its deserted cottages and farm buildings for German stragglers and take several Wehrmacht soldiers prisoner. Three 43rd Recce. Regiment universal carriers and an M5 half- track patrol a lane in 'bocage' country near Jurques (?). Firefly tanks serving with the 13/18th Hussars (?) pound the streets of Cahagnes into clouds of dust as they pass through the battered village in company with a Canadian military-pattern 3-ton lorry.
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, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
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, Bde 214 (regiment/service)
Keywords: prisoners of war (object name)
armour, British - carrier: Universal (object name)
armour, United States - halftrack: M5 (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman Firefly & [British] (object name)
transport, Canadian military - truck: CMP truck (object name)
Operation Bluecoat, Mont Pinçon 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
Normandy, France (geography)
