PREPARATIONS FOR THE ASSAULT ON HOTTOT (PART 1) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: PREPARATIONS FOR THE ASSAULT ON HOTTOT (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 77-11
  • Other titles:
  • Summary: The Sherwood Rangers Yeomanry (SRY) move up to join 231st Brigade for Operation 'Maori II'.
  • Description: Detachments from SRY's REME recovery section and LAD in the form of a Sherman armoured recovery vehicle and an M5 half-track motor along a tank track and on to the Caen-St Lo road outside Tilly-sur-Seulles with the regiment's HQ squadron. Three heavily-camouflaged Shermans follow in their wake.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-07-11
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Carpenter, L (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Bde 231 (regiment/service) British Army, LAD (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (regiment/service) British Army, Yeomanry, Sherwood Rangers (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman ARV & [British] (object name) armour, United States - halftrack: M5 & [British] (object name) armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] & [camouflaged] (object name) operations, British military - movement: road (object name) Hottot-les-Bagues (Operation Maori II) 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event) Caen-Saint Lo Road, Tilly-sur-Seulles, Calvados, 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: 52 ft; Running time: 1 min
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Summary: for footage showing tank, infantry, artillery and medical units in actions with 50th Division during the fighting for Hottot, see A70 77-12 to 15, 78-1, 7, 79-4, 5, 7, 90-6 and 7. Operation 'Maori II' was part of a larger scheme - Operation 'Dauntless' - in which it was hoped that 50th (Northumbrian) Division would make a successful drive on Villers-Bocage. Remarks: best seen with the items of ciné material listed above, notably A70 77-12 and 78-2 which contain similar, complementary footage. Documentation/associated material: for a bibliography refer to the publications listed in A70 41-3 and 43-4.
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