Summary: Complete air superiority over the battlefield allows the Allies free and uninterrupted daylight use of Normandy's road network.
Description: Filming from a Taylorcraft Auster AOP, the cameraman observes wheeled traffic using the N 13 Caen-Bayeux road; identifiable among the numerous jeeps, despatch riders, trucks and lorries seen here are CMP, Fordson WOT6, Bedford QL and OY 3- ton lorries. Cows can be seen grazing peacefully in the adjacent fields. Crisscrossing the surrounding countryside and running parallel to the Caen-Bayeux road are tracks used primarily by tanks and other tracked vehicles; the cameraman observes a column of Sherman tanks heading southwards along such tracks and briefly moving parallel to the main road. Worth noting are the flags of dust - useful range-markers for German artillery observers - the tanks trail in their wake.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Walter, Ernest Henry1919Family origin: Barry, Glamorgan, South Wales (Production individual)
