Title:SCENES IN 1ST CORPS' SECTOR OF 2ND ARMY'S BEACH-HEAD IN NORMANDY (PART 6) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 46-6
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Summary: 1st Corps units establish themselves in the Orne bridgehead.
Description: Traffic belonging to units serving with both the 27th Armoured Brigade and the 51st (Highland) Division heads eastwards into the Orne bridgehead over 'Pegasus' Bridge, spanning the Caen-Ouistreham canal at Bénouville. In the background can be seen the three Horsa gliders belonging to the 2nd Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 'coup de main' party which captured the bridge on the morning of D-Day. A column of despatch motorcycle riders and lorries led by Dodge tipper trucks heads westward towards 'Pegasus' Bridge. In the 5th Battalion Black Watch's positions near Bréville, a soldier erects a single-man tent and another gets his hair cut by one of the Battalion's barbers during a lull in the fighting. A signaller does routine maintenance on a No 22 (?) wireless set and checks the acid level of its batteries near Battalion HQ.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Grant, Ian James1917-04-16Family origin: Edinburgh, Scotland (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Div 51 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde, Armoured, 27 (regiment/service)
British Army, Black Watch, 5th Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps, Field Ambulance 175 (regiment/service)
Keywords: operations, British military - movement: road (object name)
operations, British military - routine (object name)
aircraft, British - glider: Airspeed Horsa (object name)
transport, United States military - truck: Dodge tipper truck (object name)
transport, British military - truck: Fordson WOT6 3-ton truck (object name)
transport, British military - ambulance: Austin K2 (object name)
armour, British - armoured car: Humber scout car (object name)
communications, British military - message: motorcycle despatch rider (object name)
communications, British military - electronic: wireless, No 22 (?) (object name)
equipment, British military - environmental: tent, single (object name)
Second World War, North West Europe & Operation Overlord & 14/6/1944 (event)
Caen-Ouistreham Canal, Calvados, France (geography)
Pegasus Bridge, Calvados, France (geography)
Bréville, Calvados, France (geography)
