Title:12TH CORPS' BRIDGE-HEAD OVER THE ORNE AT GOUPILLIERES [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 118-3
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: A Wehrmacht soldier from the 271st Infantry Division is brought back from 59th (Staffordshire) Division's bridge-head on the east bank of the Orne as a prisoner of war. From the west bank near the village of Goupillieres, the camera looks towards the powerhouse and weir over the Orne where sappers serving with the 509th Field Company RE have laid a single-span Class 40 Bailey bridge over the remains of an old bridge destroyed by the Germans.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Gross, A C (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, Div 59 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 12 (regiment/service)
Keywords: engineering, military, British: Class 40 Bailey bridge (object name)
operations, Allied military - movement: river crossing (object name)
prisoners of war, German - surrender (object name)
Operation Bluecoat, Mont Pinçon 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event)
Orne (River), France (geography)
Goupillieres, Calvados, France (geography)
