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.
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)
