THE INVASION ARMIES TAKE OVER THE RUNNING OF A SMALL HARBOUR ON THE CALVADOS COAST (PART 2) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: THE INVASION ARMIES TAKE OVER THE RUNNING OF A SMALL HARBOUR ON THE CALVADOS COAST (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 41-2
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  • Summary: More film of the Allies in the harbour of Port-en-Bessin, Normandy.
  • Description: I. Allied medium bombers on their way to attack German formations moving up to the Normandy front fly over St Léger. II. Undamaged fishing smacks lie moored together in Port-en-Bessin's inner harbour basin. A visual sweep over the main harbour from high ground at its eastern end (where the Germans have added to older fortifications by placing a Renault 17 FT tank turret on a concrete casement and where a Royal Navy harbour master party has now established itself) reveals RN LCTs and self-propelled barges unloading engineering equipment directly onto the quayside. Two German flak ships (one lying half-submerged) neutralised during the fight for Port-en-Bessin can also be seen. Offshore in a mass of shipping are two Free French cruisers, Montcalm and Georges Leygues, three US Navy destroyers, a corvette, an armed trawler and a lend-lease minesweeper in RN service. The camera focuses on damage wrought along the waterfront during the fighting and British sappers dismantling a reinforced concrete barrier denying access to the inner basin. Local inhabitants watch detachments from a newly-landed US Army road or airfield construction unit file along the cramped quayside.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: A70 41-2
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-06-10
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Parkinson (Sergeant) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service) Royal Navy (regiment/service) United States Army (regiment/service) United States Navy (regiment/service) Free French Navy, Montcalm (regiment/service) Free French Navy, Georges Leygues (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ships, French civilian - fishing (object name) ships, French naval - cruiser: Montcalm (object name) ships, French naval - cruiser: Georges Leygues (object name) ships, German naval - anti-aircraft & [wrecked] (object name) ships, United States naval - destroyer (object name) ships, United States naval - escort: corvette (object name) ships, British naval - amphibious: LCT (object name) ships, British naval - amphibious: self-propelled barge (object name) ships, United States naval - minesweeper (object name) defences, German - emplacement: Renault 17 FT tank turret (object name) defences, German - emplacement: concrete harbour barrier (object name) demolition, British - obsolescence: concrete barrier (object name) equipment, British military - engineering (object name) operations, British military - movement: air (object name) Second World War, North West Europe & Operation Overlord & 9/6/1944 = 10/6/1944 (event) Saint Leger, Pas-de-Calais, France (geography) Port-en-Bessin, Calvados, France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 194 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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