GREEK CIVIL WAR [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: GREEK CIVIL WAR [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: AAY 239
  • Other titles:
  • Summary: Footage of RAF operations against ELAS forces in Athens.
  • Description: (Roll 25, 21/12/1944) RAF Beaufighters, filmed from the ground, rocketting ELAS positions and disappearing behind Lykabettos Hill in Athens. (28/12/1944) An RAF Spitfire takes off from an airfield in or near Athens, and a Beaufighter lands. British troops positioned in a street in the Athens area fire 25 pounder guns. (Roll 26? - no slate) More shots of 25 pounder guns being fired. (Roll 27?, 3/1/45 - no slate) Ground crew prepare 6-inch rockets for Beaufighters by attaching the fins, screwing on the warheads and placing them in the slides on the aircraft wings. (Roll 28, 4/1/1945) Spitfires taxi past and take off. Air Commodore Tuttle (AOC. Greece) and colleague survey Athens through binoculars from the top of Lykabettos Hill. A long shot shows smoke rising from a street. A crowd is filmed from a balcony above hustling two or three people along a street and beating them (dope sheet identifies this as the lynching of an ELAS supporter).
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-01-04
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production sponsor) RAF Film Production Unit No 2 (Production company) Coop, Eric W (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Tuttle, Geoffrey William (person) Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Supermarine Spitfire (object name) aircraft, British - combat: Bristol Beaufighter (object name) combat, British - air strike [D] (object name) law and order, Greek - punishment (object name) Greece & Athens, Central Greece (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 279 ft; Running time: 8 mins
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  • Notes: Production: see note to AAY 233
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    AAY 239

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