CASUALTIES FROM NORMANDY INVASION BEACHES RETURN TO THE UK (PART 1) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: CASUALTIES FROM NORMANDY INVASION BEACHES RETURN TO THE UK (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 28-2
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  • Summary: An LST unloads wounded at Gosport.
  • Description: US Navy LST 73 arrives at Elson Hardway in Gosport with a cargo of British army casualties from 'Gold' Beach. British naval and Royal Army Medical Corps personnel wait on the embarkation 'hard' to receive the wounded, who are brought ashore from the LST (once its bow doors have opened and its ramp lowered) and put aboard a fleet of waiting Austin K2 ambulances.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: A70 28-2
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-06-07
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Taylor, A A (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: United States Navy & LST 73 (regiment/service) British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps (regiment/service) Royal Navy (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ships, United States naval - amphibious: LST 73 (object name) transport, British military - ambulance: Austin K2 (object name) casualties, British wounded (object name) medical, British military - movement: ship (object name) 12/5(261.22).7 [ Operation Neptune] (event) GB, England & Gosport, Hants <Elson Hardway> (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 100 ft; Running time: 1 min
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    A70 28-2

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