Other titles:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:General Eisenhower visits the Operation Counterthrust area and units, 17 September 1952. He arrives in his car at A Battery 74th Field Artillery Position, where he is greeted by Lieutenant Colonel Ernest C Watson, 2nd Battalion, 6th Armed Cavalry before talking to officers and gun crews of A Battery. He later leaves the area, talking to British and other Allied officers. UN flag raising ceremony at British army 2nd Infantry Division Headquarters, possibly Gysun, Germany, 14 September 1951. Major-General B A Coad, CO, makes a short speech and raises the flag as Allied troops watch (Major-General Coad was formerly of the 27th British Brigade in Korea; the flag is his personal property and was brought back from Korea). Vehicles (including tanks) from the motor pool of the US 2nd Battalion, 6th Armed Cavalry, are loaded onto flatbed railcars at Landshut, Germany, 9 September 1951. Lieutenant Colonel Watson and US Corporal Hodgkins discuss loading. Officers enter and leave conference, possibly held at Gysun, immediately before commencement of exercises, 14 September 1951: among those identified are Major-General Coad, Lieutenant Colonel Keown-Boyd, Major Ward Harrison and Belgian observer General Mitt. Colonel Watson and Captain James V Gagne, both of 2nd Battalion, 6th Armoured Cavalry, discuss battle tactics with Dutch Major Dacosta on the outskirts of Holtorf, Germany; tanks and soldiers wait nearby for the order to attack. Tanks (one camouflaged), jeeps and trucks of 2nd Battalion, 6th Armoured Cavalry enter Holtorf; "captured" Dutch troops move out.
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Alternative Title:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
