Attack On A Pill Box (1941)

Titles read: “Attack on a pill box“. Location of events unknown. Army training exercise with British troops taking the part of the Germans. The story could pass for an actual attack as actions and uniforms do not look fake. M/S of pillbox in sand dunes. M/S of British soldier crawling through the dunes. C/U of soldier beckoning. Various shots of Assault Detachment Commander joining the soldier in the dunes. C/U of two German soldiers by window of pillbox. One points his gun outside, the other looks through binoculars. M/S of group of British soldiers huddled in dunes. Natural sound, we hear officer in charge of attack giving precise commands to the section leaders. C/U of German soldier looking through binoculars. M/S of British soldiers marching through salt marshes. M/S of Germans. One of them spots the British soldiers and shouts “Achtung“ (in a plausible German accent), the other German fires his machine gun. M/S of British firing smoke bombs at pill box. The Germans retaliat
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