Title:ROAD CLEARANCE, CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR IN NORMANDY (PART 5) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 63-7
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Summary: Armoured units drive through a wrecked Norman village.
Description: Some of the remaining inhabitants in Juaye-Mondaye watch an armoured bulldozer from 149th Assault Park Squadron Royal Engineers trundle through the battle-scarred village. Cromwell and Firefly tanks belonging to a 22nd Armoured Brigade unit, the 1st Royal Tank Regiment, race through the village before going into harbour at a nearby location during 7th Armoured Division's withdrawal into reserve; a Bedford QL 3-ton lorry is seen briefly in front of the camera.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Leatherbarrow, RichardPrior to the Second World War Leatherbarrow was a portrait photographer. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Armoured Corps, transferring to the Army Film and Photographic Unit in 1943, when he received training at Pinewood. He was one of the cameramen on Juno Beach during the D-Day Landings. (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers, Assault Park Squadron 149 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Tank Regiment, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, British - funnies: armoured bulldozer (object name)
armour, British - tank: Cromwell (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman Firefly & [British] (object name)
transport, British military - truck: Bedford QL 3-ton truck (object name)
operations, British military - movement: armour (object name)
Second World War, North West Europe & Operation Overlord & 1/7/1944 (event)
Juaye-Mondaye, Calvados, France (geography)
