Battle Of Caen (1944)

Title Missing.

Caen, France.

Various shots of WWII American tanks on the move. Shots of planes flying overhead. MS allied soldiers point up at the planes. Shots of flak from anti-aircraft guns exploding in the sky. VS of British troops with heavy mortar. MS an ambulance drives past. MS allied troops running from cover. VS allied troops with camouflage standing up in wheat / corn field. CU of soldier cleaning the magazine of his sten machine gun. LS of artillery gun firing from under camouflage netting. VS of allied troops with two German Prisoners of War (POWs). VS of German vehicles abandoned. LS of smoke on the horizon. MS of American tank. MS of bomb damaged building. VS of British soldiers doing their laundry / washing with local French women. MS a Bren gun carrier is reversed into a hole to hide off road. VS planes flying high overhead.

N.B. Item found in Unidentified Gazettes reel.
FILM ID:2739.02

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