THE IRISH GUARDS GROUP SUFFERS TANK CASUALTIES DURING OPERATION "GARDEN" [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: THE IRISH GUARDS GROUP SUFFERS TANK CASUALTIES DURING OPERATION "GARDEN" [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 162-6
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  • Summary: The Guards Armoured Division pays the inevitable and sometimes costly penalty of advancing on a one tank-wide front as it moves up to relieve the 1st British Airborne Division in Oosterbeek.
  • Description: Sherman and Firefly tanks belonging to the 2nd Armoured Battalion the Irish Guards nose their way cautiously past a group of tanks from their leading squadron knocked out by anti-tank and self-propelled guns belonging to 'Kampfgruppe Walther', a German unit in position astride the Valkenswaard-Eindhoven highway. Troop-carrying transport belonging to the Irish Guards Group follows the armour along the raised and exposed road.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: A70 162-6
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-09-18
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Parkinson (Sergeant) (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 96 ft; Running time: 1 min
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