12TH CORPS FIGHTS ITS WAY INTO S'HERTOGENBOSCH (PART 4) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: 12TH CORPS FIGHTS ITS WAY INTO S'HERTOGENBOSCH (PART 4) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 183-14
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  • Summary: As the 53rd (Welsh) Division fights its way into s'Hertogenbosch, support units tidy up the main road leading into the city from the north east.
  • Description: Three sappers serving with 244th Field Company RE probe with a bayonet and pitch forks for German wooden Schu-mines buried in the verges alongside the Heesch-s'Hertogenbosch road in Hintham; another RE uses a mine detector as he sweeps for mines near the tangled wreckage of a truck and along the road-side verges. The cameraman examines three (?) abandoned horse-drawn 7.5cm le, IG 18 gun detachments and the corpses of their Wehrmacht gunners and draught animals killed as they tried to escape from Hintham into s'Hertogenbosch earlier in the same day (24/10/1944). Two engineers sitting on the back of an abandoned Wehrmacht artillery wagon watch their tinned meal cook over an open fire.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: A70 183-14
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-10-24
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Chown, L B T (Production individual)
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  • Keywords: Netherlands & Hintham (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 182 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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