MEDIUM ARTILLERY IN ACTION SOUTH OF MONT PINCON [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: MEDIUM ARTILLERY IN ACTION SOUTH OF MONT PINCON [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 123-2
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  • 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.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: A70 123-2
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-08-14
  • Production Country: GB
  • 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)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 288 ft; Running time: 3 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

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