Title:THE 11TH ARMOURED DIVISION'S UNITS ADVANCE EASTWARDS FROM ARGENTAN IN THE WAKE OF THE RETREATING GERMANS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 132-6
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Summary:
Description: On the 19th August, an 11th Armoured Division Firefly tank heads eastwards across a Class 40 Bailey bridge at Putanges where a German assault gun has toppled into the river. On the 22nd, a detachment from the 4th Battalion King's Shropshire Light Infantry (SLI) patrol a road in the Fôret de St Evroult in company with Sherman tanks from the 3rd Royal Tank Regiment. The cameraman films from a moving 4th SLI carrier as it speeds along a narrow track through the forest. 3rd RTR Shermans and a more manoeuvrable 4th KSLI carrier compete for road space with a column of 8th Rifle Brigade half-tracks in the forest.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Palmer, F A W (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Shropshire Light Infantry, King's, 4th Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Tank Regiment, 3rd Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 29 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 11 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
British Army, Rifle Brigade, 8th Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: engineering, military, British: Class 40 Bailey bridge (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman Firefly & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - halftrack: M5 (object name)
transport, United States military - light utility: jeep & [British] (object name)
Orne (River), France (geography)
Putanges-Pont-Ecrepin, Orne, France (geography)
