CANADIAN TROOPS OCCUPY CAEN'S SUBURBS [Allocated Title]

Two sequences showing Allied activities in Normandy, July 1944.

Universal carriers belonging to the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, a 9th Canadian Brigade unit, move up through the ruins of Mondeville, one of Caen's industrial suburbs east of the Orne river, during the closing stages of 2nd Canadian Corps' Operation "Atlantic". A section of Highland Light Infantry of Canada troops searches schoolhouses and an adjoining garden in the Faubourg de Vaucelles. A small group of 21st Panzer Division soldiers led by an officer is taken away by the Canadians after their capture in Mondeville. Captured after fierce fighting by the North Shore (New Brunswick) Regiment, the steelworks at Les Colombelles have been almost entirely obliterated. Two 1/7th Queen's riflemen search the ruins of Demouville for a suspected sniper who did not materialise. Outside Cagny, men of the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards form up to attack the village of Le Poirier held by the 1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler".

35mm