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Title:SEQUENCES FOR PRODUCTION 'X' (CONTINUATION OF 'GRIPPERS CROSS' SEQUENCE) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ACB 115
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: Traffic jam at "Gripper's Cross" (cf ACB 108, 109); American trucks move forward slowly; various signs read "half mile Main [arrow]", "Five miles Rear [arrow]", "TAF - 84 Group Rear H.Q.", "Convalescent Depot", "Recovery Vehicles", "RASC Airfreight Reception", B14 Airfield". More signs - in front of a small truck towing artillery piece - "Banville 102 BSA", "Keep Moving", "Keep to the Right", "No Entry", "No overtaking" (this one on a telegraph pole), "C.E.P.", "Star Morefield Elbow Beach, SMEB", "N172 Calvados, La Tuilerie" and, on the side of a building, "Cinzano, Le Meilleur Apéritif".
Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company)
Baylis, Peter (Production individual)
Challis, Christopher George (Production individual)
Hodges, Ken (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
United States Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: operations, Allied military - movement: road (object name)
Normandy, France (geography)