Metadata
- Title: REINFORCEMENTS COME ASHORE AT 'JUNO' BEACH [Allocated Title]
- Film Number: A70 47-7
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- Summary:
- Description: On the evening of June 13, 1944, Cromwell tanks - reinforcements for the 7th Armoured Division - come ashore from Royal Navy LST 542 onto 'Mike' Beach between Graye-sur-Mer and Courseulles. Other invasion craft - an LCT, from which Bedford QL lorries are seen coming ashore, and US Navy LST 519 lie stranded on the beach by the falling tide; note the barrage balloons flying overhead. One tank, assigned to the 1st Royal Tank Regiment (?) has come to grief in a patch of soft sand. Two bulldozer tractors from No 7 Beach Group lined up in tandem help to pull it out.
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1944-06-13
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Johnson, John Norman (Production individual)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Beach Gp 7 (regiment/service) British Army, Div, Armoured, 7 (regiment/service) Royal Navy, LST 542 (regiment/service) United States Navy & LST 519 (regiment/service)
- Keywords: aircraft, British - balloon: barrage balloon (object name) armour, British - tank: Cromwell (object name) ships, British auxiliary - amphibious: LCT (object name) ships, British auxiliary - amphibious: LST 542 (object name) ships, United States naval - amphibious: LST 519 (object name) transport, British military - engineering: bulldozer tractor (object name) transport, British military - truck: Bedford QL (object name) Mike Beach, Calvados, France (geography) Mike Beach, Graye-sur-Mer, Calvados, France (geography)
- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
- Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 93 ft; Running time: 1 min
- Notes: Summary: for footage showing 7th Armoured Division in action alongside 50th Division with 30th Corps during June 1944, see A70 41-4, 49-4 and 5, 52-2 to 5 and refer generally to ciné material showing troops and vehicles disembarking directly onto the invasion beaches from LCTs after D-Day, notably A70 33-1 to 4, 55-1, 2 and 57-2. Remarks: best seen with the items of ciné material listed above. Documentation/associated material: in addition to the publications listed in A70 41-3, read 'Desert Rats At War: 2 - Europe' by George Forty and 'A Short History of the 7th Armoured Division June 1943-July 1945' by the Division.
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