Title:ATS SERVICEWOMEN ARRIVE IN NORMANDY (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 103-4
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Summary: The first Auxiliary and Territorial Service personnel to arrive in Normandy land at 'Juno' Beach during the evening of July 28th 1944.
Description: Watched by RN LST crewmen and army Beach Group personnel, 24 servicewomen disembark from LST 164 onto the beach at Courseulles; note the Sherman BARVs (one in position by LST 164 bow doors) and the Mack 5-ton heavy breakdown lorry on hand to recover broken-down and 'drowned' vehicles and another tank landing ship (LST 45) waiting to land its complement of soft- skinned vehicles onto the beach at low tide. Two ATS Provosts chat to a 'Redcap' motorcycle rider serving with either 242nd or 244th Provost Company.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Leatherbarrow, RichardPrior to the Second World War Leatherbarrow was a portrait photographer. During the Second World War he joined the Royal Armoured Corps, transferring to the Army Film and Photographic Unit in 1943, when he received training at Pinewood. He was one of the cameramen on Juno Beach during the D-Day Landings. (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Army 21 (regiment/service)
British Army, Auxiliary Territorial Service, Provosts (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Military Police (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LST 45 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LST 164 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - funnies: M4 Sherman BARV & [British] (object name)
communications, British military - message: despatch rider (object name)
ships, British auxiliary - amphibious: LST 45 (object name)
ships, British auxiliary - amphibious: LST 164 (object name)
transport, United States military - truck, special: Mack 5- ton heavy breakdown lorry & [British] (object name)
Juno Beach, Courseulles-sur-Mer, Calvados, France (geography)
