AIRFIELD RECONSTRUCTION [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: AIRFIELD RECONSTRUCTION [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 149
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  • Summary:
  • Description: Shots of a German helmet, on a cross with Carpiquet airfield in the background: inscription reads 'Unknown Soldier, German'. A truck passes by; an aircraft (Mosquito) takes off, with cross in foreground; a Spitfire taxies, near some tents, film of 4 Mosquitos lined up (these are apparently the first Allied aircraft to land on the new Carpiquet airfield). A group of men is shown minesweeping, with a detector-windsock in the background; more film of men 'sweeping', in a line: one has detector and earphones, one stands just behind him, others follow with tape; the back-up man (a corporal) gets down on his knees, and digs around with a bayonet, eventually raising a flat metal (Teller) mine. Close-up of man with earphones and detector.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: ACB 149
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-08-25
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Hodges, Ken (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: De Havilland Mosquito (object name) aircraft, British - combat: Supermarine Spitfire (object name) casualties, German graves - battlefield (object name) equipment, British air - damage control: mine detector (object name) operations, British air - mines: clearance (object name) operations, British air - routine (object name) weapons, German - mine: Teller mine (object name) Carpiquet, Calvados, France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 286 ft; Running time: 3 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 149

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    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])
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