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Title:LANCASTERS RAID ENEMY POSITIONS AT CAUMONT [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ACB 87
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Summary:
Description: A Lancaster flies over the countryside near Caumont; brief shots of Lancasters; aerial film of airfield and ruined buildings (a village); wrecked hangars, with bomb craters nearby; aerial shots of bombed village, fields and road (hangars and runway in the distance); brief aerial shots of Caen and environs, including cathedral and canal. (Bomb-damaged airfield is Carpiquet.)
Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company)
Baylis, Peter (Production individual)
Challis, Christopher George (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Avro Lancaster (object name)
combat, British - air raid (object name)
destruction, French military - area: bomb (object name)
Caen, Calvados, France (geography)
Carpiquet, Calvados, France (geography)
Caumont, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography)
Film:OPT 86 (RAF SECOND TACTICAL AIR FORCE ATTACK ON CARPIQUET [Allocated Title])
Film:OPT 87 (RAF SECOND TACTICAL AIR FORCE ATTACK ON CARPIQUET [Allocated Title])
Film:OPT 88 (RAF SECOND TACTICAL AIR FORCE ATTACK ON CARPIQUET [Allocated Title])
APY 29 (THE AIR PLAN [Main Title])