1ST CORPS REACHES THE LOWER SEINE [Allocated Title]

The cameraman surveys the picturesque countryside around Fontaine-Noy (?). As vehicles from units serving with 56th Brigade - notably jeeps and a carrier-towed anti-tank gun detachment from the 2nd Battalion Essex Regiment - drive through Pont Audemer, four Wehrmacht prisoners are escorted into the town by their FFI captors. A Frenchman gives glasses of wine to the drivers of a Universal carrier and a CMP 3-ton lorry. At St Opportune-la-Mer, two Wehrmacht prisoners carry the corpse of a former comrade on a stretcher prior to his burial; German stragglers are escorted to the rear by two recce. troopers riding in a captured Kübelwagen. Five Wehrmacht soldiers (one or two evidently non-German) surrender to men from the 49th Recce. Regiment's 'A' squadron. At Quillebeuf, FFI volunteers and local people examine a Wehrmacht artillery column abandoned at the edge of the Seine; dead draught horses lie next to 10.5cm le FH18 guns and their limbers and, nearby, a sunken ferry lies awash in the river. FFI members and the local gendarmerie armed with Stens and Mauser rifles patrol Quillebeuf on foot and in a captured German field car. More camouflaged waggons from the horse-drawn artillery are found intact.

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