Title:SCENES IN THE ODON BATTLEFIELD FOLLOWING OPERATION EPSOM (PART 5) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 65-1
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Summary: Units of the 11th Armoured and 53rd (Welsh) Divisions consolidate 15th (Scottish) Division's front in the Odon Valley as the latter formation goes into reserve after the cessation of unsuccessful German counter-attacks.
Description: A Panther Ausf A tank (probably from the 9th SS Panzer Division Hohenstaufen) knocked out by anti-tank artillery supporting 44th Brigade is found lying derelict in an orchard near Grainville-sur-Odon. The cameraman examines the charred hulk's prominent features, notably the large interleaved road wheels with scorched rubber surrounds and the two stowage boxes and twin exhaust system (with a lifting jack stowed in between) on its rear plate. A piper from the 1st Battalion Highland Light Infantry plays as he marches at the head of an infantry section during 71st Brigade's occupation of 15th (Scottish) Division's front west of Cheux and Le Haut du Bosq. Shermans and Fireflies belonging to the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry move up through the muddy streets of Cheux to Colleville in company with a Humber scout car from the 2nd Northamptonshire Yeomanry; note the two direction signs pointing the way to 15th (Scottish) Division units early on in this sequence.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Alcock, J (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Highland Light Infantry, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Yeomanry, Fife and Forfar, 2 (regiment/service)
British Army, Yeomanry, Nottinghamshire, 2 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, German - tank: Pzkpfw V Ausf A & Panther I & [wrecked] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman Firefly & [British] (object name)
armour, British - armoured car: Humber scout car (object name)
operations, British military - movement: road (object name)
Second World War, North West Europe & Operation Overlord & 2/7/1944 (event)
Grainville-sur-Odon, Calvados, France (geography)
Cheux, Calvados, Normandy, France (geography)
