Title:AIRFIELD IN NORTHERN FRANCE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ACB 38
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Summary:
Description: Various long shots of the airfield, and of flying overhead (indistinct), airmen collect their rations and are seen washing, near field tents, a truck passes by, and an airman fills a jerrycan; another airman cleans and reassembles a Sten gun; a gun emplacement is built in the foreground (airmen dig, and carry armfuls of hay). Long shots of convoy ships lying off the beach, with balloons above them, men walk among rubble on the beach, a DUKW enters the sea, a Spitfire is seen through some reeds and is again shown from the side (in the dispersal area). General shots of Spitfires on airfield.
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Supermarine Spitfire (object name)
defences, British - emplacement (object name)
operations, British air - preparation (object name)
operations, British air - routine (object name)
transport, United States military - amphibious: DUKW & [British] (object name)
weapons, British - smallarm: Sten gun (object name)
Bazenville, Calvados, France (geography)
