OPERATION EPSOM - 8TH CORPS' FORMATIONS IN ACTION (PART 14) [Allocated Title]

Scenes on the first and second days of Operation Epsom.

I. A 25-pounder gun detachment (15th (Scottish) Division) goes into action near Cheux during an evening barrage.

II. The barrel of a Browning .50 calibre machine gun mounted on a 2nd Fife and Forfar Yeomanry M5 halftrack points skywards after firing at a Luftwaffe fighter while it attacked a 29th Armoured Brigade harbour. Smoke rises from a vehicle 'brewed-up' in a field some distance away. Churchill tanks from a 31st Tank Brigade unit arrive (?) at their harbour north of Cheux (Cully?). Elements of the 9th Battalion the Cameronians, the 91st Anti-Tank Regiment Royal Artillery and the 7th and 44th Royal Tank Regiments assemble outside Cheux before advancing on Grainville-sur-Odon. The cameraman records the extent of the destruction in Cheux caused by Allied and German artillery and mortars, traffic congestion and floods; a 23rd Hussars Sherman ARV reverses through the village in pouring rain. A 10th Highland Light Infantry 6-pounder anti-tank gun detachment is seen dug in by the road leading southwards out of Cheux; a truck hit by German artillery or mortar fire burns itself out nearby.

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