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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.
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:A70 24-1
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Film: IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1944-06-01-1944-06-01
Production Country:GB
Production Details:Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production Company)
Grant, Ian James (Production individual)