Title:BRITISH MILITARY TRAFFIC COPES WITH FLOODS ON THE ROADS IN NORMANDY (PART 5) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 92-5
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Summary: The effect of the great rainstorm of July 20th 1944 on troop movements in 1st Corps' sector of the Orne bridge-head.
Description: I. Traffic belonging mainly to 3rd Division units negotiates a road between Demouville and Banneville-la-Campagne whose surface consists of liquid mud; the vehicles seen here include a Fordson WOT2 truck and jeeps from the HQs of 9th and 185th Brigades, jeeps from 3rd Division's Corps of Military Police provost company and 62nd Anti-Tank Regiment RA, CMP 15-cwt trucks from 1st Battalion Royal Norfolk Regiment, a Humber scout car, a universal carrier OP and a jeep from 7th Field Regiment RA and a CMP utility ambulance and a DR (despatch rider) from 9th Field Ambulance RAMC. Sergeant Christie AFPU is seen wading through the mud and wiping his boots with grass.
II. Infantrymen serving with the 2nd or 5th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders use wooden fencing beams, doorways, and corrugated iron to provide overhead cover and flooring for their dugouts in the Bois de Bavent; these they then camouflage with earth and tree branches.
III. Troops serving with the 6th Airborne Division march in pouring rain through Escoville (?) along a road in use by 11th Armoured and 51st (Highland) Division units.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Wilkes, A E (Production individual)
