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Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire. 5th Corps exercises with Armoured Division and 4th Division (Infantry Brigade). Takes place from the night of 1-2 December to 4 December in the area Dorking-Winchester-Salisbury and Cadnam, Hampshire. The defending force hold the canal between Marlborough and Hungerford. Armoured Division takes the canal line. There is air cooperation on both sides (Lysanders). Parachutists drop behind defenders at West Down near Shrewton.
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AYY 66/1. Officer explains planned exercises in front of a map of the area. Various shots of tanks, armoured cars and trucks on local roads, travelling across bridges and carrying out manoeuvres on the plain. Shots of tanks camouflaged and hidden in the undergrowth.
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AYY 66/2. Shots of plane flying and aerial views of the area of the manoeuvres. Soldier on a motor bike.
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Shots of soldiers waiting, drinking tea and eating in the woods. Shot of a case with the name "Elton" taped across it. Soldiers waiting in the woods as darkness falls. Soldiers repairing treading on a tank. Parachutists dropping from a plane. Motorcycles and other vehicles on the plain.
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AYY 66/3. Soldier holds sign reading "Elton". Vehicles on road at dusk. Motorcyclists and tanks drive over the bridge. Shell fire. Men eating from tin boxes, laying on ground in woods. Car with branches on top of it. Men crossing a makeshift bridge. Generals Montgomery and Alanbrooke study a map on the bonnet of a car. Point of view shot from driver driving across the bridge. Soldiers on foot. Vehicles towing anti-aircraft guns. Aerial shots.
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AYY 66/4. A soldier smokes a pipe. Camouflaged buses. Medical trucks. Parachutists drop from planes. A soldier tightens parts of the bridge with tools.
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AYY 66/5 shows the work of a field hospital at Wyke Hall, Gillingham, near Salisbury on 29 November 1940. Stretcher bearers come running through the woods. They provide quick field dressings then carry the wounded to the Regimental Aid Post. A doctor uses a stethoscope. Patients are taken to the Advanced Dressing Station. Signs for Reception and Operating Tent. A doctor bandages a soldier's head. Table with instruments laid out. Various injured men are carried into ambulances.
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AYY 66/6 and 66/7 repeat shots from earlier reels.
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35mm