ASSAULT UNITS PREPARE FOR THE INVASION OF EUROPE (PART 5) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: ASSAULT UNITS PREPARE FOR THE INVASION OF EUROPE (PART 5) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 24-1
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  • Summary: Commandos serving with 1st Special Service Brigade spend the last days before the D-Day landings in a sealed-off transit camp situated in the New Forest near Southampton.
  • Description: I. Commandos belonging to the Brigade's signal troop scramble over an improvised battle training area, operate a portable G8 radio and connect up the heavier No 22 wireless set with its generator during a training session. II. Troops belonging to No 4 Commando march out of the camp to embark on their invasion craft moored in the Hamble. With them are Free French commandos from No 10 (Inter-Allied) Commando. III. A light utility car drives into the transit camp at its entrance. A sergeant takes down the name of a St John Ambulance Brigade volunteer at the camp's check-in point.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-06-01
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Grant, Ian James1917-04-16Family origin: Edinburgh, Scotland (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, 1st Special Service Brigade (regiment/service) British Army, 4 Commando (regiment/service) AP.A & Commando, Inter-Allied, 10 (regiment/service) Free French Forces (regiment/service) Saint John Ambulance Brigade (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: communications, British military - electronic: wireless, No 22 (object name) communications, British military - electronic: wireless, portable, G8 (object name) training, British - specialist: wireless (object name) operations, British military - movement: march (object name) GB, England & Hants <New Forest> (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 200 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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    A70 24-1

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