Title:REINFORCEMENTS COME ASHORE AT 'JUNO' BEACH (part 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 55-1
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Summary:
Description: Universal carriers are disgorged at low tide from RN LSTs onto 'Mike' Beach at Courseulles-sur-Mer; a Scammell wrecker lorry and bulldozers equipped for shallow water recovery work stand by. Blockships belonging to 'Gooseberry 4' can be seen in the background. An MP directs the flow of lorries belonging to 214th Brigade's RASC company and a 2nd Army REME unit from LST 65. Personnel and a recovery bulldozer from No 7 Beach Group stand by in case any vehicles get bogged down; a Sherman BARV can be seen near another LST in the background. Vehicles from the RASC and REME units on the top deck of LST 65 are driven in turn onto a lift which lowers them onto the run-off deck from which they are driven off the vessel. A barrage balloon flies over self- propelled barges and LCTs stranded by the low tide; as one LST draws away from the beach, another arrives with reinforcements. Lorries, ambulances and trucks belonging to various units (notably a 21st Army RASC GT company and a 79th Armoured Division (?) RAMC unit) head for a beach exit. A Bedford QL 3-tonner disembarks from a US Navy LST.
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Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:A70 55-1
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1944-06-21
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Harris, L W J (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Army 2 (regiment/service)
British Army, Bde 214 (regiment/service)
British Army, Beach Gp 7 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Army Service Corps (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Military Police (regiment/service)
Royal Navy (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LST 65 (regiment/service)
United States Navy (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, British - carrier: Universal (object name)
armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman BARV (object name)
engineering, military, British - Mulberry: blockships ('Gooseberry 4') (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LST 65 (object name)
ships, United States naval - amphibious: LST (object name)
transport, British military - engineering: bulldozer (object name)
transport, British military - truck, special: Scammell wrecker lorry (object name)
transport, British military - truck: Bedford 3-ton QL (object name)
Mike Beach, Calvados, France (geography)
