ADMIRAL STARK VISITS OMAHA BEACH AND MULBERRY A [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: ADMIRAL STARK VISITS OMAHA BEACH AND MULBERRY A [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 1984
  • Other titles: OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Admiral Harold R Stark, Twelth US Fleet commander and head of all US naval forces assigned to Operation Overlord, inspects Omaha and Utah Beaches in Normandy shortly after D-Day.
  • Description: START 00:00:00 Admiral Stark's party looks out from the cliffs at Vierville over the crowded anchorage off Omaha Beach. A bulldozer 'Rammer' passes camera. MSs of the Admiral's party, and US infantrymen wading ashore from LCAs. MCU as an amphibious jeep approaches the beach. Camera craft pulls away from the beach - LCA 130 lies astern. MCU track from port bow to stern of the destroyer HMS Scorpion riding at anchor. Admiral Stark and companions board the destroyer. MCU of crew holding up ship's name plate for the camera. Camera craft at speed - MS of US Elco 80 foot patrol boat holding station on the starboard quarter - a British hospital ship in the background. 00:02:29 A Dodge ambulance emerges from the shallows onto Utah Beach. Admiral Stark stands in a Dodge command car on Utah Beach talking with a colonel of the US Rangers (2nd Rangers ?), while US troops pass in the foreground. German POWs fill sandbags in a beach compound. Stark's command car passes a crashed P.47B-D. Stark and the Rangers colonel continue talking before a parked DUKW. MS of US medical orderlies relaxing on Utah Beach around a mobile crane. 00:03:10 Scenes at Mulberry A artificial harbour off Omaha Beach. MS of a DUKW alongside on the port quarter of a small freighter in the anchorage. LS to the caisson line. CU of Rear-Admiral Kirk. MLSs of MTL, with Spud pierhead sections and a US Army tug in the background, and lengths of Whale roadway and caissons. Camera vessel carries Stark and party along the line of blockships - small craft alongside include LCM(3)s, LCP(R)s, LCI(L) 86, MLs, Rhino barges, etc. LCP(L) passes by on an opposite course. LS to Omaha beach and unloading LCTs - LCT(5) 2487 and a LBO(Petrol) lie in the foreground. 00:05:12 MS off the port beam of the US heavy cruiser USS Augusta. LA.MS of Admiral Stark's flag. Camera craft comes alongside the warship, and Admiral Stark goes up scramble netting to be greeted by Captain Foskett (?). Admiral Kirk follows. Crew (including Afro-American ratings) watch from upper deck. 00:06:16 Admiral Stark inspects sections of concrete beach defences on Omaha Beach converted into beach group HQ. Stark and party look over the anchorage. 00:07:21 Stark and party go down the side of the USS Augusta into camera craft. CUs of Stark, Kirk, and Brigadier-General Royce (?). MS of a group of merchantmen, and pan left over LCM(3) to trawler. Final LS of Omaha Beach (Fox Green Beach), and LCTs and heavy supply barges. END 00:07:21
  • Alternative Title: OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: ADM 1984
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-06
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor) Movietone (Production company) Ramsden, Jack L (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Stark, Harold R (person) Kirk, Alan G (person) Royal Navy, Scorpion (regiment/service) Royal Navy, LCT5 2487 (regiment/service) Royal Navy, LCA 130 (regiment/service) United States Navy, AUGUSTA (USS), heavy cruiser (1930) (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ships, British naval - destroyer: Scorpion (object name) ships, British naval - amphibious: LCT[5] 2487 (object name) ships, British naval - amphibious: LCI[L] 86 (object name) ships, British naval - amphibious: LCA 130 (object name) ships, British naval - amphibious: LCM[3] (object name) ships, British naval - amphibious: LCP[R] (object name) ships, British naval - amphibious: LCPL (object name) ships, British naval - amphibious: LBO (Petrol) (object name) ships, United States naval - cruiser: Augusta (object name) ships, United States naval - light forces: Elco 80ft MTB (object name) engineering, military, British - Mulberry (object name) aircraft, United States - combat: Republic P-47 Thunderbolt & [wrecked] (object name) transport, United States military - amphibious: amphibious jeep (object name) transport, United States military - ambulance: Dodge ambulance (object name) transport, United States military - amphibious: DUKW (object name) transport, United States military - utility: Dodge command car (object name) transport, United States military - engineering: bulldozer (object name) transport, United States military - engineering: mobile crane (object name) delegations, United States international - military (object name) defences, German - passive: [captured] (object name) prisoners of war, German - labour (object name) operations, United States military - amphibious (object name) supplies, United States, movement [RA] - misc (object name) 01/5(4-16).1 (event) Omaha beach, Calvados, France (geography) D-Day, Normandy Landings 1944, North West Europe, Second World War (event) Amphibious Warfare (theme) Combined Operations and Landing Craft 1940-1945 (theme) Normandy Landings 1944 (theme) Royal Navy 1939-1945 (theme) United States Navy 1939-1945 (theme) United States Army 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 786 ft; Running time: 7 mins 21 secs
  • HD Media:Yes
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