Title:ROYAL NAVY SHORE PARTY SECURES AZUMA ISLAND IN TOKYO BAY [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 524
Other titles:BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: RN shore party inspects Japanese defences in Tokyo Bay.
Description: I. Reel One. Camera craft approaches Azuma in company with other LCVPs - the helmsman and gunners are American. LCVPs PD-703 and 704 run ashore, and RN landing party disembarks. Japanese soldiers emerge carrying a flag of truce, and lead the British to a tarpaulin-covered Type 89 127mm Naval gun. A second emplacement contains a Model 98 20mm (?). HA.LS over the bay, where landing craft are moving about - an American with a Thompson SMG and a British rating, the barrel of a Bren sticking out of his knapsack, look out over the scene.
II. Sequence filmed from a LCVP underway with companion craft, and shots of the derelict battleship Nagato with APD 124, USS Horace A Bass alongside. MS to sunken vessel marked by a buoy.
III. Cut back to the landing party: after talking with the British, the Japanese are removed to a LCVP waiting in the deserted docks area. The White Ensign is raised over the RN HQ.
IV. Reel Two. Sequence onboard HMS King George V as she replenishes from a storeship while underway. Shore party pack rucksacks and receive issue blankets, before forming up to transfer (with cameraman) to a LCVP and thence to APD 50, USS Sims. Onboard Sims the men are briefed by CO, Captain H J Buchanan. As they approach the coast the men don helmets and board the LCVPs. US Commander issues orders for the disembarkation through a loudhailer. MS of APD 70, USS Pavlic as LCVP passes in the foreground - two more APD are visible in the distance, one of which is APD 85, USS Runels. Cut to HA.MS from Sims as LCVP returns with the British shore party - the men are given a hot meal. Final sequence as Sims proceeds in company with USS Pavlic - a LCVP is launched from the cameraship whilst underway.
Alternative Title:BRITISH NAVAL OPERATIONS IN THE FAR EAST [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Buchanan, H J (person)
Royal Navy, King George V (regiment/service)
United States Navy & Sims (regiment/service)
United States Navy, USS PAVLIC, high speed transport (1943) (regiment/service)
United States Navy, USS HORACE A BASS, transport (1944) (regiment/service)
United States Navy & Runels (regiment/service)
Imperial Japanese Navy & Nagato (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, United States naval - amphibious: Sims (object name)
ships, United States naval - amphibious: Horace A Bass (object name)
ships, United States naval - amphibious: Pavlic (object name)
ships, United States naval - amphibious: Runels (object name)
ships, United States naval - amphibious: LCVP[1] (object name)
ships, United States naval - amphibious: LCVP[3] (object name)
ships, Japanese naval - battleship: Nagato & [damaged] (object name)
weapons, Japanese naval - gun: 127mm Type 89 (object name)
defences, Japanese - emplacement (object name)
equipment, British naval - personal (object name)
operations, British naval - routine: replenishment at sea (object name)
Japanese Surrender 1945, Pacific War 1941-1945, Second World War (event)
Japan & Tokyo Bay, Honshu (geography)
