Title:DUKWS IN RASC SERVICE (PART 4) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 58-6
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Summary: At No 2 Trans-shipment Area at Arromanches, supplies collected by DUKWs belonging to 337th and 633rd GT Companies RASC from merchant shipping moored off the Calvados coast are unloaded, sorted out according to type and despatched to depots further inland.
Description: The cameraman observes the activity at the stores dump; Austin K6 Coles mobile cranes are used to transfer the DUKWs' cargoes onto loading platforms. DUKWs are seen both arriving at the site and leaving to replenish their fuel tanks before collecting more supplies. RASC US-manufactured White cargo lorries are loaded up with supplies for despatch to POL, ordnance, vehicle, food and clothing stores dumps in No 2 Army Roadhead.
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 2 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Army Service Corps, GT Coy 337 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Army Service Corps, GT Coy 633 (regiment/service)
Keywords: armour, United States - amphibious: DUKW & [British] (object name)
operations, British military - amphibious (object name)
supplies, Allied, movement [FA] - misc (object name)
transport, British military - engineering: Austin K6 Coes mobile crane (object name)
transport, United States - truck: White cargo lorries (object name)
Number 2 Trans-shipment Area, Arromanches, Calvados, France (geography)
Number 2 Army Roadhead, Calvados, France (geography)
Calvados, France (geography)
