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Title:PRELUDE TO THE BIGGEST ALLIED ATTACK SINCE D-DAY [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 85-8
Other titles:
Summary: Soft-skinned transport and specialised armour pour into the Orne bridgehead immediately prior to Operation "Goodwood".
Description: Trucks and jeeps cross the River Orne over a permanent swing-bridge captured by the 6th Airborne Division on D-Day and subsequently named "Euston" by 1st Corps engineers. A 22nd Dragoons Sherman Crab flail tank comes to grief as the earth bank at the entrance to the bridge collapses under its weight. One of its equally cumbersome stable-mates is carefully guided over the Orne on "London II" bridge, one of several Class 40 pontoon bridges spanning the Orne and Canal de Caen.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Smales, Edgar Hiram1920-08-071984-09-19 (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Dragoons, 22 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 30 (regiment/service)
British Army, Div, Armoured, 79 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman Crab & [British] (object name)
operations, British military - movement (object name)
buildings, French - institutional: bridge 'Euston (object name)
engineering, military, British: Class 40 Bailey Bridge 'London II (object name)
01/5(4-16).233 [ Operation Goodwood] (event)
Orne (River), France (geography)