Title:THE 59TH (STAFFORDSHIRE) DIVISION GOES INTO ACTION NORTH OF CAEN ON THE FIRST DAY OF OPERATION "CHARNWOOD" (PART 3) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 72-7
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Summary: For it's battle debut, 197th Brigade is assigned the task of assaulting villages defended by the 12th SS Panzer Division 'Hitlerjugend'.
Description: Two universal carriers, one carrying an OP detachment from 116th Field Regiment RA and the other ("Dog Star") carrying the HQ of the 1/7th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment's 'D' company and tanks from the East Riding Yeomanry's 'A' squadron towards the village of St Contest Shermans belonging to the tank squadron's HQ troop in particular a Firefly armed with a 17-pounder gun manoeuvre behind the crest of a low ridge in front of St Contest to take up hull-down firing positions and to avoid mortar bombardment while one or two infantrymen dig-in in the foreground; smoke from bursting mortar bombs flares up in the waist-high wheat. An RAF Typhoon fighter-bomber supporting the attack flies low overhead. One of the HQ troop Shermans opens fire with its co-axial Browning .30 calibre machine-gun on positions impeding the Warwickshires assault.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:A70 72-7
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1944-07-08
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film Unit (Production company)
Watkins, R V (Production individual)
