Title:THE SOVIET MILITARY MISSION VISITS THE NORMANDY BEACH-HEAD (PART 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 96-5
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Summary: The Soviet Military Mission visits Arromanches.
Description: Accompanied by a conducting party consisting of officers from the headquarters of 2nd Army (and 21st Army Group and the Russian Liaison Group) Vice-Admiral Kharlanov, Major-Generals Sklyarov and Vasiliev and Colonel Gorbatov inspect No. 2 Trans- shipment Area where DUKW amphibious lorries (notably one specimen from 377th GT Company RASC) have the cargoes they collected from ships lying off-shore transferred to ordinary cargo lorries for delivery further inland. Through murky light, the British and Soviet officers survey shipping moored inside the Mulberry harbour from cliff tops west of Arromanches; an RASC (?) lieutenant-colonel provides a commentary on the activity in the harbour which the captain interpreter in the conducting party translates into Russian. Brigadier Firebrace, chief of the Russian Liaison Group, is seen briefly climbing into a jeep before leaving.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Carpenter, L (Production individual)
