TRAINING AND REHEARSALS FOR, AND MEN RETURNING FROM, OPERATION 'BITING', THE BRUNEVAL RAID, FEBRUARY 1942 [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: TRAINING AND REHEARSALS FOR, AND MEN RETURNING FROM, OPERATION 'BITING', THE BRUNEVAL RAID, FEBRUARY 1942 [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: BEY 222
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  • Summary: Mute unedited black and white footage shot by Gaumont British News cameramen covering aspects of the training of members of 2nd Battalion the Parachute Regiment at Loch Fyne, Scotland and at Lulworth Cove, Dorset February 1942 in preparation for the raid on Bruneval, Operation Biting, of 27-28 February 1942 and footage of the return of the Paratroopers, with prisoners, after the raid.
  • Description: Reel One. 12 February 1942, Loch Fyne, Scotland. Motor Gun Boats in the Loch. Lord Louis Mountbatten, Chief of Combined Operations, arrives by launch and boards HMS Prinz Albert, a former Belguim passenger ship in use as a landing craft transport and support vessel. Mounbatten is met by Captain Peate and inspects the officers and crew. 11 February 1942, Loch Fyne, Scotland. Views of Landing Craft Assault (LCAs) in Loch Fyne containing troops from the Royal Fusuliers and South Wales Borderers. Rifle practice from a LCA. Views onboard HMS Prinz Albert including anti-aircraft drills and shots of a Naval officer wearing a sheepskin gilet posing with a Bren Gun. Paratroops practice transfers from HMS Prinz Albert to LCAs. LCAs lowered on davits. View from LCA to other LCAs on the water. Men go ashore from LCAs. Sailors lined up for inspection onboard HMS Prinz Albert. Paratroops taking up defensive positions on the shore of Loch Fyne with officers giving instruction. Paratroops depart from the section by section. Shots of men boarding the LCAs including a brief shot of an official photographer standing by LCA A135 and a Naval officer hauling up the ramp and closing the doors of LCA A120. Shots of LCA returning to HMS Prinz Albert and being hoised back onboard. 16 February 1942, Loch Fyne, Scotland. Onboard HMS Prinz Albert, shots of the ship's mascot dog "Jill" looking very anxious as she is fitted with a life jacket by two members of the crew. Posed shot of the dog "Jill" together with the ship's cat on the deck. Motor Gun Boat (MGB) towing a LCA. Line of LCAs on Loch Fyne. Reel Two. 19 February 1942, Lulworth Cove, Dorset. Views from HMS Prinz Albert a LCAs are lowered on davits. Transfer of a injured man on a stretcher to a MGB. Paratroops decending from cliffs and embarking in LCAs. More shots of the lowering of LCA from HMS Prinz Albert with Captain Peate watching from the deck. Paratroops on the shore. Motor Gun Boat passes at speed. 22-23 February 1942, Lulworth Cove, Dorset. Posed shot onboard HMS Prinz Albert of Captain Peate, Commander Frederick Norton Cook (Royal Australian Navy) and Major Bromley-Martin, headquarters staff, 1st Airborne Division looking at a map. Men of the Royal Fusiliers and South Wales Borderers loading ammunition and preparing weapons below decks. Camouflaged Landing Craft Support (SLC) lowered on davits. SLC hauled back onbaord HMS Prinz Albert. Line of five MGBs. Silhouette shot of a Bren Gun operator on the deck of HMS Prinz Albert. 28 February 1942, Portsmouth harbour. MGBs return from the raid on Bruneval to HMS Prinz Albert. MGB Q312 comes alongside and Flight Lieutenant Douglas H Preist comes onboard HMS Prinz Albert. Group Captain Sir Nigel Norman and other officers talking with the Flight Sergeant Charles Cox and Corporal Jones on the deck of HMS Prinz Albert. Flight Lieutenant Preist talking with Captain Peate. Paratroops board HMS Prinz Albert. Shots of the anchor being raised. Wing Commander Percy Charles Pickard talking with Paratroopers and examining a captured German helmet. Men onboard HMS Prinz Albert cheer as the MGB's come alongside. Shot of MGB (317?) alonside with Major John Frost on the bridge (wearing helmet). MGB 326 comes alongside and wounded men are brought onboard, including Regimental Sargeant-Major Gerry Strachen brought onboard in a Neil Roberston stretcher. Two German POWs are brought onboard, wounded infantryman Tewes and telephone orderly Schmidt.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: BEY 222
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM
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  • Production Date: 1942-02-11 1942-02-19 1942-02-20 1942-02-16 1942-02-22 1942-02-12 1942-02-27
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Gaumont British News (Production company) Edmonds, A R "Eddy" (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage 1913 ft
  • HD Media:Yes
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