A Diary for Timothy (1945)

Directors

Humphrey Jennings

Cast

John Gielgud, Myra Hess

The story

The film documents a number of events. These include the recovery of an English fighter pilot Dr. Peter Roper, who was shot down in his Typhoon fighter by anti-aircraft artillery fire on 7 June 1944, from German panzer column from the 5th Panzer Army (Panzer Group West) with units from the Panzer Lehr Division and the 12th SS Hitlerjugend Division, near Monts en Bessin, south of the landing beaches of the Normandy invasion of Europe.

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