Title:LANDINGS ON 'SWORD' BEACH, 6 JUNE 1944 (PART 6) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 36-1
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Summary:Invasion craft are seen gathering in the Solent and en route to Normandy. Invasion forces are seen coming ashore at 'Queen Red' Beach.
Description:I. Signal flags fly from the mast of the cameraman's own tank landing craft which steams into the Solent past Gosport and one of the Spithead forts and joins other invasion craft from Force 'S' anchored off the Isle of Wight.
II. Dozens of LCTs plough through the Channel's choppy waters, with many craft flying barrage balloons.
III. While in the Solent, two men read the official invasion booklet on France. Engineers and anti- aircraft gunners attached to No 5 Beach Group have a meal under the shelter of the camouflage netting draped over the tank-deck.
IV. At 'Queen Red' Beach, where a 79th Assault Squadron Royal Engineers AVRE, an non-armoured bulldozer and a Scammell wrecker lorry can be seen, Royal Marines from No 45 Commando disembark from their LCI(S)s under fire; in the foreground a 22nd Dragoons flail tank burns itself out near a beach exit. Men from the 1st Norfolk Regiment wade ashore from an LCI(L). Men from the 2nd East Yorkshire Regiment watch Wehrmacht prisoners being led to a beach compound by a No 4 Commando escort and a commando cycle troop on its way to Ouistreham.
Production Details:Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production Company)
Greenhalgh, W A (Production individual)
