Title:THE SUPPLY OF PETROL TO THE BRITISH SECTOR OF THE NORMANDY BEACH-HEAD [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 88-2
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Summary: RASC units issue POL supplies to army and air force formations in 21st Army Group's sector of the Normandy beach-head.
Description: The cameraman surveys the activity at Port-en-Bessin; a coastal tanker is seen discharging petrol and aviation fuel at one of six newly-built deep-draught tanker quays. Pipes lead ashore to camouflaged storage tanks (where 11,000 tons of MT petrol and aviation spirit are stored). From here, fuel is pumped inland through a multiple pipeline laid by Royal Engineers. At the first inland RASC filling point, Bedford OXC and OXY petrol bowsers fill up with petrol; here, a 65-hp engine pumps fuel further inland at the rate of 100 gallons per minute. The pipeline follows the Bayeux bypass to No. 2 Army Roadhead at Blory. Here at a forward filling point, RASC personnel fill up 5- gallon jerrycans and load them onto Studebaker lorries. An RE (?) metalworker welds a section of the 6-inch diameter aviation spirit pipeline to Coulombs; among the vehicles seen using the Caen-Bayeux road in the background is a captured Kübelwagen.
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, Royal Army Service Corps (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
British Army, Army 21 (regiment/service)
Keywords: transport, German military - car: Kübelwagen (object name)
engineering, military, British: welding (object name)
aircraft, British - balloon: barrage balloon (object name)
supplies, British, military [FA] - pol (object name)
transport, British military - truck, special: Bedford petrol bowser (object name)
equipment, British military - camouflage (object name)
Normandy, France (geography)
