ROAD CLEARANCE, CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR IN NORMANDY (PART 6) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: ROAD CLEARANCE, CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR IN NORMANDY (PART 6) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 63-8
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  • Summary: Elements of the 7th Armoured Division withdraw into reserve through a village badly damaged by the fighting and now being part-demolished for the purposes of road construction.
  • Description: Troops from the 50th (Northumbrian) Division watch Cromwell tanks belonging to the 1st Royal Tank Regiment race through Juaye-Mondaye; note the 'TT' sign in the background which points the way to 50th Division's HQ. Seen among the Cromwells and Fireflies travelling through the village are two captured Wehrmacht trucks now in use with 295th Field Company Royal Engineers, a 50th Division unit. An armoured bulldozer from 149th Assault Park Squadron RE is seen assisting 295th Field Company RE in demolishing badly-damaged thatched cottages during the construction of a military road through Juaye-Mondaye; its powerful rear-mounted cable winch is used to tear down walls. Also at work on the site is an RB-10 excavator which is seen dumping rubble suitable for road construction into Dodge and Dennis tipper lorries. A French boy helps sappers lay stone rubble foundations for a permanent road surface at a widened bend in the road leading through the village.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: A70 63-8
  • Sound: None
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-07-01
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Leatherbarrow, RichardPrior to the Second World War Leatherbarrow was a portrait photographer. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Armoured Corps, transferring to the Army Film and Photographic Unit in 1943, when he received training at Pinewood. He was one of the cameramen on Juno Beach during the D-Day Landings. (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Div 50 (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Tank Regiment, 1st Battalion (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Engineers, Field Coy 295 (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Engineers, Assault Park Squadron 149 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: armour, British - tank: Cromwell (object name) armour, British - funnies: armoured bulldozer (object name) armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman Firefly & [British] (object name) transport, French military - truck: Renault 1-1/2-ton & [German] & [captured] & [impressed] (object name) transport, French military - truck: Citroën 1-1/2-ton & [German] & [captured] & [impressed] (object name) transport, United States military - truck: Dodge tipper truck (object name) transport, British military - truck: Dennis tipper truck (object name) transport, British military - engineering: RB-10 excavator (object name) operations, British military - movement: armour (object name) engineering, military, British: road building (object name) demolition, British - obsolescence (object name) Second World War, North West Europe & Operation Overlord & 1/7/1944 (event) Juaye-Mondaye, Calvados, France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: None Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 299 ft; Running time: 3 mins
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    A70 63-8

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    A70 63-9 (ROAD CLEARANCE, CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR IN NORMANDY (PART 7) [Allocated Title])
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