Title:EXERCISE SOUTHERN EXPRESS, NORTHERN GREECE, 4 OCTOBER TO 10 OCTOBER 1962 - REEL 2 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:NAT 1773
Other titles:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:Prior to the day's march, British soldiers are seen resting, reading, cleaning their weapons, sorting rations, shaving (with electric razor connected to battery) and studying maps. Group of soldiers stand watching ants; others talk with an American soldier. The men leave the camp in convoy and pass through town on the way to the exercise area. German jeep is checked by sentries. Soldiers advance in woods. Scenes in German camp; soldiers in tents, soldiers testing field telephone, other soldiers practicing shooting. US soldiers check map on the bonnet of their jeep, as local people pass by. Combat simulation; troops running, laying down with machine guns, checking the position with binoculars. Soldier radios ahead with orders. Troops advance; one soldier tries to hide jerricans, taken from camouflaged truck, in the woods. A truck is refuelled from one of the jerricans. Soldiers dig hole for machine gun nest; the gun is set up and camouflaged. Soldiers run and hide behind bushes or in holes, firing their guns. Sentry, on camouflaged platform, on a truck.
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Alternative Title:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
