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Title:MEDIUM ARTILLERY IN ACTION SOUTH OF MONT PINCON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 123-2
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: Gunners belonging to the 84th (Sussex) Medium Regiment RA, a 5th AGRA unit, open fire with their 5.5 inch gun on German positions opposite 30th Corps' front in the vicinity of Condé-sur-Noireau. Note the gun detachment have dispensed with any form of overhead camouflage netting; the tree nearby serves more as a shelter from the sun than anything else. Later, several 5.5 inch gun detachments are towed away by AEC Matador tractors from their gun-lines near St Pierre la Vielle along dry and extremely dusty roads to a new firing position.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Ginger (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 30 (regiment/service)
Keywords: transport, British military - prime mover: AEC Matador 4x4 tractor (object name)
weapons, British - gun: 5.5-inch gun (object name)
Normandy, France (geography)