Title:SCENES IN THE NORMANDY BEACH-HEAD D+1, D+2 (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 34-2
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Summary:
Description: A group of Pioneers working with No 8 Beach Group examines the corpses of two Wehrmacht soldiers killed at the entrance to their pillbox on 'Nan Red' Beach at St Aubin-sur-Mer. A military policeman on traffic duty directs three Morris Bofors self- propelled guns belonging to the 4th LAA Regiment Royal Artillery through St Aubin's high street. Filmed from a church tower and on street level, Sherman tanks - reinforcements for 27th Armoured Brigade - rumble through La Délivrande watched by some of its inhabitants. A detachment from No 46 Royal Marine Commando patrols the village's main street.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Walter, Ernest Henry1919Family origin: Barry, Glamorgan, South Wales (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Pioneer Corps (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 27 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Royal Marines & 46 Commando (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, Light AA Regiment 4 (regiment/service)
Keywords: casualties, German dead - battlefield (object name)
operations, British military - movement: armour (object name)
defences, German - emplacement: pillbox (object name)
armour, British - SPG: Morris Bofors (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
12/5(261.22).7 [ Operation Neptune] (event)
Nan Red Beach, Saint Aubin-sur-Mer, Calvados, France (geography)
La Délivrande, Calvados, France (geography)
