Jewish soldiers in Palestine perform military exercises

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2009.357.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4901 | Film ID: 2889

Overview

Description: Palestinian troops wearing helmets and carrying bayonets rush up a hill through an arch in a stone structure (IWM identifies it as an old city castle). LS of troops aiming their rifles from the top of the stone wall. Two soldiers stand sentry beside a Star of David flag atop the stone wall (battlement?). Jewish soldiers, smiling, talking, smoking, one gives the camera a thumbs up. A soldier operates a field phone with a board of international codes hanging on the wall. Soldiers perform various military exercises. Captured German soldiers under guard of the Palestinian troops cross a desert field. Prisoners seated in the back of a truck.
Film Title: Cyprus Pioneer Corps (Alien Unit); British Army Operations in the Second World War
Duration: 00:03:25
Date: Event: 1943
Production: 1943 March 20
Locale: Israel
Palestine
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Imperial War Museums
Contributor: Producer: Great Britain. Army Film and Photo Unit.
Camera Operator: A.W. Acland

Language: Silent
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 02:15:18:00 to 02:18:43:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2889 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2889 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2889 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Master 2889 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 2889 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2889 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2889 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2889 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
User
User 2889 Video: DVD
User 2889 Video: DVD
User 2889 Video: DVD
User 2889 Video: DVD

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Copyright: Imperial War Museums
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Copyright Holder: Imperial War Museums

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the film excerpts from the Imperial War Museum in October 2009.
Note: IWM Notes: all five parts of AYY 208 are compiled onto a single reel. The USHMM purchased three sections (98 ft; 147 ft; 44 ft)

IWM Summary: The dope sheet refers to this unit as the British Foreign Legion and as a Palestinian unit of the British army. It states that the unit includes men from Poland, Rumania, Hungary, Russia, Czechoslovakia, Greece and Bulgaria and that it has seen service at Dunkirk, Crete, Greece and the Western Desert.
Copied From: 35mm comopt print
Film Source: Imperial War Museums
File Number: Legacy Database File: 5309
Source Archive Number: AYY 208
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive