WRECKAGE OF RADAR STATION, CAPTURED BY ROYAL MARINES [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: WRECKAGE OF RADAR STATION, CAPTURED BY ROYAL MARINES [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 27
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  • Summary:
  • Description: Various shots of damaged radar equipment, including display screen, scanner, control panel and 'bunker' control room. Complex of nearby brick buildings and dug-outs is also shown, almost flattened. Marines wander around these buildings: one picks up a bottle and smells it, another shakes a greatcoat, a Sergeant holds up a smashed portrait of Goering. Damaged huts and trucks are seen nearby: a Marine looks at the engine of a wrecked truck.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-06-20
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Mackinnon (Sergeant) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Marines (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: defences, German - passive: radar station & [wrecked] (object name) destruction, German military - aimed: bomb (object name) equipment, German military - surveillance: radar & [wrecked] (object name) Douvres-la-Délivrande, Calvados, France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 294 ft; Running time: 3 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Technical: print is part of a can comprising ACB 26-28 (total length 490 ft). Fine grain version is part of a can comprising ACB 27 and 28 (total length 445 ft). ACB 27, SP is 301 ft - extra footage of wrecked buildings.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 27

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