Other titles:UNITED KINGDOM LAND FORCES COLLECTION - BRITISH ARMY 1980s [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Film illustrating the biggest mobilisation since 1945 concentrates on the participation of 30,000 members of the British Territorial Army (TA) in manoeuvres intended to test and demonstrate the ability of NATO forces to withstand an attack by the Warsaw Pact across the "Iron Curtain" of the Russian Empire. Comments from General John Akehurst and General Sir Frank Kitson, and from individual soldiers, stress the contribution of the TA to the success of the fifteen day exercise.
Description: Scenes include Private Vicky Dixon from Plymouth as a TA nurse, the 4th Royal Tank Regiment loading up at Tidworth Camp (Wiltshire) and 1st Battalion Kings Own Borderers at North Shields dockside waiting to board. Equipment includes Saxon APCs (armoured personnel carriers) and recently introduced tracked Rapier missile batteries.
Alternative Title:UNITED KINGDOM LAND FORCES COLLECTION - BRITISH ARMY 1980s [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Central Office of Information (Production sponsor)
Headquarters United Kingdom Land Forces (Production company)
Film Communications Ltd (Production company)
Williams, Gordon (Production individual)
Brown, Pete (Production individual)
Larsen-Burnett, Carl (Production individual)
Bird, Steve (Production individual)
Montgomery, Paul (Production individual)
Slater, Steve (Production individual)
Lohan, Keith (Production individual)
