INDIAN FORCES IN THE ATTACK; WESTERN DESERT OFFENSIVE
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: AYY 225/5-7).
Synopsis
Crashed Stuka plane with pilot's body burning under fuselage. Troops from the 8th Indian Brigade advance in the background with a Bren carrier. Close up of burning body.
Italian POW being escorted by patrol cars of the 12th Lancers in a dust storm. Column of Italian POWs moving past. Yorkshire gunners moving up into action. South Notts Hussars firing a 25 pounder gun at an enemy target.
German ammunition truck on fire after being bombed. A Junkers 87 B Stuka shot down. Intelligence Officer Captain P Townsend examining a pile of captured German matriel. Lieutenant General Frank Messervy, Lieutenant-Colonel Phyman and Major Richardson were captured but escaped; they appear in battle dress, having removed their badges of rank.
Action in the Western Desert.
Titles
- INDIAN FORCES IN THE ATTACK; WESTERN DESERT OFFENSIVE (Allocated)
- Series Title:
- BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1942
- Running Time:
- 5 minutes
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 35mm
- Colour:
- B&W
- Sound:
- Silent
- Footage:
- 420 ft
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- GB
- cameraman
- Flack (Sergeant)
- cameraman
- Murray, J A C (Lieutenant)
- cameraman
- Windows, J C (Sergeant)
- Production company
- War Office Film Unit
