Summary: British troops help French farm-workers harvest wheat in a field between Lantheuil and Pierrepoint in a part of the Normandy beach-head left untouched by the fighting.
Description: Off-duty 1st Corps troops help a colourfully-dressed farm girl stock sheaves of wheat. A healthy-looking teenage boy operates a horse-drawn harvester and, while doing so, drags away a length of barbed-wire laid by the Germans in order to obstruct landings by Allied airborne troops; the presence of a nearby airstrip from which RAF Typhoon fighter-bombers from No. 83 Group are seen flying off on their missions detracts somewhat from this otherwise peaceful scene.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Collins (Sergeant) (Production individual)
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Keywords: agriculture, French - arable: harvest (object name)
Normandy, France (geography)
