Title:2ND ARMY LAUNCHES AN ATTACK ON ITS FIRST MAJOR OBJECTIVE INSIDE GERMANY (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 196-1
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Summary: 43rd (Wessex) Division participates in Operation "Clipper", 30th Corps' assault on Geilenkirchen.
Description: Each tank carrying a section of infantrymen from the 7th Battalion Somerset Light Infantry, Shermans belonging to the 4/7th Dragoon Guards' 'A' squadron motor along a churned-up country road (which their tracks further mutilate) towards 214th Brigade's concentration area at Gilrath in company with an MP motorcycle rider from 43rd Division's CMP provost company. Infantry serving with the 5th Battalion Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry march in single file across country towards Neiderheide (where they will attack Hocheide and Bruggerhof); note members of a mortar detachment carrying a 2-inch mortar and cylindrical ammunition containers and a signaller (an FOO)? with a No 18 wireless on his back. An infantryman wounded in the right leg by a German sniper concealed in woods nearby leans on his rifle as he hobbles to safety. Detachments from DCLI's carrier platoon and a Morris II light recce(?) car move up towards Neiderheide along the same track.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:A70 196-1
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1944-11-18
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Army Film Unit (Production company)
Parkinson (Sergeant) (Production individual)
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Keywords: Germany & Geilenkirchen area, North Rhine-Westphalia (geography)
