Title:ELEMENTS OF THE 7TH ARMOURED DIVISION MOVE UP TO 8TH CORPS' FRONT DURING OPERATION 'GOODWOOD' [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 87-8
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Summary:
Description: Cromwells and Fireflies belonging to the 1st RTR deploy in the cornfields around the village of Giberville during the regiment's advance to catch up with the rest of the 22nd Armoured Brigade now fighting for the Bourguebus ridge some four miles away. The tanks pass the long barrel of an 8.8cm PAK 41/43 anti- tank gun (lying well concealed by tall stalks of wheat) which was overrun during the previous day's advance. An M10 Achilles from the 65th Anti-Tank Regiment RA winds its way through Giberville and rolls across the Caen-Troarn railway.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Collins (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Artillery (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Tank Regiment, 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 22 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 7 (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 8 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, British - tank: Cromwell (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman Firefly & [British] (object name)
armour, United States - SPG: M10 Achilles (object name)
weapons, German - gun [AT]: 8.8cm PAK 43 (object name)
01/5(4-16).233 [ Operation Goodwood] (event)
Normandy, France (geography)
