Title:BRITISH TROOPS LIBERATE A TOWN IN NORTHERN FRANCE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 148-3
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: The inhabitants of Lens, an industrial town situated some ten miles north-east of Arras, rush into the streets to welcome the 11th Armoured Division. Those guilty of co-operating with the Germans during the occupation are immediately rounded up; three women, their heads shaved, are put on parade by their FFI captors. Other Resistance men take a joy ride on a Sherman tank. The advance towards the Belgian frontier continues; an 11th Armoured Division Sherman crosses an intact bridge outside Lens and heads towards Carvin, the division's next objective.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Laws, George E J1916-02-15 (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Forces Francaises de l'Interieur (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 11 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 29 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
Keywords: celebrations, French - liberation (object name)
law and order, French - punishment: women collaborators (object name)
transport, United States military - utility: jeep (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman Prong & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman ARV Mark I & [British] (object name)
transport, British military - truck: Bedford 3-ton 4x2 (object name)
transport, United States military - truck: Dodge 3-ton 4x2 (object name)
Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography)
