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Summary: Armour moves up into the Odon Valley at dawn.
Description: Silhouetted against the sunrise, Sherman and Firefly tanks belonging to the 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry's 'B' Squadron move up from Norrey-en-Bessin towards Fontaine Etoupefour where they will join the rest of 29th Armoured Brigade on Hill 112.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Robinson, D (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Fife and Forfar Yeomanry, B Squadron (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman Firefly & [British] (object name)
operations, British military - movement: armour (object name)
01/5(4-16).232 [ Operation Epsom] (event)
Norrey-en-Bessin, Calvados, France (geography)
Notes: Summary: all three of 29th Armoured Brigade's tank regiments saw action in the Hill 112 sector, a feature so exposed to German artillery and rocket-mortar fire that it had to be abandoned when Epsom was called off
Remarks: good footage, with some impressive cloud patterns caught by the rising sun