SELF-PROPELLED ARTILLERY GOES INTO ACTION IN THE MONT PINCON SECTOR OF 30TH CORPS' FRONT [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: SELF-PROPELLED ARTILLERY GOES INTO ACTION IN THE MONT PINCON SECTOR OF 30TH CORPS' FRONT [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 120-7
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  • Summary:
  • Description: A troop of Sexton 25-pounder self-propelled guns from either the 86th (East Anglian and Hertfordshire Yeomanry) or the 147th (Essex Yeomanry) Field Regiment RA bombard German units delaying 50th (Northumbrian) Division's advance towards Condé-sur-Noireau around the village of St Pierre la Vielle. The heat of the countryside around Mont Pincon is such that the gunners of one particular Sexton are stripped to the waist as they load and fire their 25-pounder gun.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-08-11
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Parkinson (Sergeant) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service) British Army, Bde, Armoured, 8 (regiment/service) British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Operation Bluecoat, Mont Pinçon 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event) Normandy, France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 60 ft; Running time: 1 min
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Note: See A70 120-2 for footage showing a Sexton SPG in action and refer to A70 109-5, 115-2, 120-2 and 15, 123-2 and 124-5 for material showing artillery in action on 30th Corps' front during the first three weeks in August 1944 and refer to footage showing 30th Corps in action during "Bluecoat" culminating in the capture of Mont Pincon and the advance south- eastwards towards the Noireau valley. Remarks: Good footage. Best seen with items listed above, notably A70 120-2. Documentation/associated material: Refer to A70 109-5 for publications listed as a bibliography.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    A70 120-7

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