Title:THE REMAINS OF DESTROYED AND ABANDONED FLYING BOMB SITES [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 146-1
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Summary: Six bombed-out and derelict flying bomb launching sites are uncovered by 12th Corps' advance in an area around Molliens Vidame west of Amiens.
Description: At Brocourt, wrecked V-1 fuselages and their 'insides', notably spherical-shaped compressed air bottles, are found lying in a bomb-blasted stretch of wood. Rails on which the mobile launch platform used to run lead into the trees. At Lignieres, a concrete runway for the launching platform is concealed by a wood. A small camouflaged shelter can be picked out on the right. At Souplicant, a low improvised earth and wood firing bunker lies near the launching way in among close-growing trees. At Camps L'Amienois just outside Molliers Vidame, concrete fragments lie scattered over bomb-craters at the corner of a wood - the result of a British air raid in early July. A broken 'ski' ramp lies nearby. A two-bay concrete bunker and another wrecked ramp together with mangled flying bomb parts and a lorry and trailer are found at Avesnes. At Entrejust, an uncompleted earth ramp cut into the hillside is left as a reminder of the Germans' presence.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Walter, Ernest Henry1919Family origin: Barry, Glamorgan, South Wales (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Corps 12 (regiment/service)
Keywords: destruction, French military - area: bomb (object name)
weapons, German - rocket: V1 flying bomb site (object name)
materiel - wreckage (object name)
Somme, France (geography)
