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Title:SCENES IN THE NORMANDY BEACH-HEAD D+1, D+2 (PART 9) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 37-3
Other titles:
Summary: 50th Division units head inland from 'Gold' Beach to cut the Bayeux-Caen highway at St Léger.
Description: I. The 5th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment heads inland from 'King Red' Beach at La Rivière (4/7th Dragoon Guards and 81st Assault Squadron Royal Engineers armour on and just behind the beach), passing grass set alight by mortar fire, an anti-tank ditch bridged by a Churchill fascine-carrier and a declared minefield at Mont Fleury strongpoint, the shelled village of Mont Fleury (?) and a 50th Division artillery halftrack and several civilians in Ver-sur-Mer. The battalion advances on Crépon; Wehrmacht troops wave a white flag in order to surrender. Villagers watch British troops file through Crépon. Supported by the 4/7th Dragoon Guards, the troops head for Villers-le-Sec, taking several prisoners and encountering a destroyed 352nd Infantry Division (?) 'Sturmgeschütz' en route, fraternise with civilians in the village and encounter opposition in St Gabriel. A night-time fire blazes near Brécy. (?)
II. The battalion heads for Rucqueville. Infantry and vehicles file through the village; Allied (?) fighters fly low overhead. Smoke rises from Martragny; the battalion takes up defensive positions outside St Léger. Mitchell medium bombers fly into action. A rifleman takes up position in a looted farmhouse bedroom.
Attached Media - A70 37-1, A70 37-2 and A70 37-3
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Parkinson (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Div 50 (regiment/service)
British Army, Yorkshire Regiment, East, 5th Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Dragoon Guards, 4/7 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Engineers, Assault Squadron (?) 81 (regiment/service)
German Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: operations, British military - movement: march (object name)
combat, British (object name)
destruction, French military - area (object name)
society, French - friendship (object name)
armour, British - funnies: Churchill AVRE fascine carrier (object name)
armour, German - SPG: StuG III & [wrecked] (object name)
prisoners of war, German - surrender (object name)
aircraft, United States - combat: Consolidated B-25 Mitchell (object name)
Second World War, North West Europe & Operation Overlord & 6/6/1944=7/6/1944 (event)
King Red Beach, Calvados, France (geography)
Montfleury, Isère, France (geography)
Crépon, Calvados, France (geography)
Villers-le-Sec, Aisne, France (geography)
Saint Gabriel, Calvados, France (geography)
Brécy, Aisne, France (geography)
Rucqueville, Calvados, France (geography)
Martragny, Calvados, France (geography)
Ver-Sur-Mer, Calvados, France (geography)
Saint Leger, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography)