Title:ACTIVITIES IN THE ORNE BRIDGEHEAD, JUNE 1944 (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 41-7
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Summary: Commandos seen in action in the Orne bridgehead.
Description: I. Scenes in the village of Amfréville; corpses of soldiers and horses with other debris of war from 346th Infantry Division lie scattered in a tree-lined village street. Nearby stands a pre-war roadsign giving directions to locations now in the joint hands of 6th Airborne Division and 1st Special Service Brigade. A medical orderly enters Amfréville's post office, now taken over as No 6 Commando's regimental aid post; nearby, a commando sorts out the contents of a kitbag. Stacked against the post office wall are rifles and kit belonging to men wounded in action. A local farmer and his horse tow a dead German horse for burial through the village. Two commandos walk past Amfréville's mayor's office.
II. No 6 Commando in action on the outskirts of Amfréville; a British artillery barrage falls on the German-held village of Bréville beyond a wheatfield dotted with German anti-glider stakes. An artillery observer wearing netting over his head watches the bombardment through binoculars. Commandos dash through an orchard under fire to take up positions by a farmhouse during a German counter-attack. Commandos wearing waterproof capes receive tinned rations in their slit trench.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Clague, N (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps (regiment/service)
British Army, 6 Commando (regiment/service)
German Army, Div, Infantry, 346 (regiment/service)
Keywords: casualties, German dead - battlefield (object name)
animals, mammals: horse & [casualties] (object name)
equipment, British military - personal: kit (object name)
combat, British - artillery bombardment (object name)
defences, German - emplacement: anti-glider stakes (object name)
society, British military - sustenance (object name)
Second World War, North West Europe & Operation Overlord & 10/6/1944 (event)
Amfreville, Calvados, France (geography)
Bréville, Calvados, France (geography)
