Title:THE 43RD (WESSEX) DIVISIONS ADVANCE THROUGH THE 'BOCAGE' TOWARDS THE MONT PINCON MASSIF [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 112-3
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Summary: One of 8th Armoured Brigade's regiments provides support for 130th Brigade's drive towards Ondefontaine which meets with fierce resistance.
Description: Two ex-DD Shermans from the Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry's 'C' Squadron rumble along a sunken lane in 'bocage' country between La Bigne and Ondefontaine. As the distance between themselves and their objective lessens, the 4th Battalion Dorset Regiment, 130th Brigade's leading battalion, comes under increasingly heavy mortar fire; riflemen crouch and sit under the roadside hedgerows and wait for the bombardment to cease.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Gee, Richard (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
British Army, Dorsetshire Regiment, 4th Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde 130 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 43 (regiment/service)
British Army, Yeomanry, Sherwood Rangers (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 8 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
Operation Bluecoat, Mont Pinçon 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
Normandy, France (geography)
