Title:SUNSET CROSSING OF THE SEINE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 142-9
Other titles:
Summary: Elements of the 11th Armoured Division cross the Seine in the evening of August 28th 1944.
Description: Silhouetted against the sunset and the broken road bridge in the background, a Sherman tank belonging to the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry (?) moves slowly across the 680-foot long Class 40 Floating Bailey Bridge to the north shore of the Seine at Vernonnet, followed by a half-track and a 'Bren gun' carrier from the 8th Battalion Rifle Brigade and two 'Sexton' 25-pounder self- propelled guns belonging to the 13th Royal Horse Artillery.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Jones, H J [Army cameraman] (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 11 (regiment/service)
British Army, Rifle Brigade, 8th Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, Royal Horse Artillery, 13th Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, British - carrier: Universal (object name)
armour, British - SPG: Sexton 25-pounder (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
operations, Allied military - movement: river crossing (object name)
engineering, military, British: Class 40 Bailey bridge (object name)
buildings, French - institutional: bridge & [wrecked] (object name)
Seine (River), France (geography)
Vernon, Eure, France (geography)
