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Title:SCENES IN THE NORMANDY BEACH-HEAD D+1, D+2 (PART 7) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 35-1
Other titles:
Summary: Royal Marines armour and commandos are seen fighting to take a German strongpoint on the coast at Langrune-sur-Mer.
Description: A Centaur tank from the Royal Marine Armoured Support Group (RMASG) is accompanied by an M10 self-propelled gun from the 3rd Canadian Division's anti-tank unit as it closes in on a 45-man strong detachment from the 736 Wehrmacht Regiment's 9th Company holding out against No 48 Royal Marine Commando in a strongpoint near the seafront at Langrune-sur-Mer. Men from the Commando's 'A' Troop take up positions in buildings and in a garden as the two armoured vehicles move up to demolish a concrete tank barrier denying them access to the seafront. Further along the road lies a Centaur disabled by mines the previous day and another tank beyond it cut off from the rest of the commando force by its stable-companion's misfortune. Later, commandos catch up with the M10 - which has expended all its ammunition - and the crippled Centaur; with them in the background is an RMASG Sherman tank. Eventually a group of thirty-two survivors from the strong-point submits to being searched for concealed weapons by its commando captors.
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: German Army, Div, Infantry, 716 & Grenadier Regt 736, Coy 9 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Royal Marines & 48 Commando (regiment/service)
Canadian Army, Div, Canadian, 3 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - SPG: M10 Wolverine & [Canadian] (object name)
armour, British - tank: Centaur & [damaged] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
prisoners of war, German - surrender (object name)
combat, British (object name)
combat, Canadian - armoured (object name)
defences, German - emplacement: concrete tank barrier & [wrecked] (object name)
12/5(261.22).7 [ Operation Neptune] (event)
Langrune-sur-Mer, Calvados, France (geography)
A70 34-3 (SCENES IN THE NORMANDY BEACH-HEAD D+1, D+2 (PART 3) [Allocated Title])
B 5145 (THE ROYAL MARINES IN THE NORMANDY CAMPAIGN 1944)
B 5146 (THE ROYAL MARINES IN THE NORMANDY CAMPAIGN 1944)
B 5148 (THE ROYAL MARINES IN THE NORMANDY CAMPAIGN 1944)