Description: Two Typhoons take off (with airfield and fields in the background), and one lands. Various shots of digging equipment (crane, excavator etc) and of muddy area to be prepared. Close-ups of mechanical grab shifting earth. A tractor tows a mechanical grinder (later to be seen in action, levelling the surface) - there are factories and fields in the background. A bulldozer drives through a barley field (past a notice "Airfield - No Traffic"). Two Canadian airmen are seen digging, while another one covers a tent with straw, and a fourth checks his rifle. Letters are distributed to the two airmen, who open and read them. In a field, a bulldozer tows a giant roller (a sentry is seen in the foreground). Film of the grinder in action is followed by more takes of the Canadian airmen reading. Good footage of a Bofors gun site, of a woman and child picking vegetables and shrubs just in front of it, and of the Bofors crew 'scanning'.
Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company)
Challis, Christopher George (Production individual)
Eades (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Mackinnon (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Canadian Air Force (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: agriculture, French - arable (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: Hawker Typhoon (object name)
engineering, military, British: airfield construction (object name)
transport, British military - engineering: bulldozer (object name)
transport, British military - engineering: tractor (object name)
weapons, British - gun [AA]: Bofors (object name)
Normandy, France (geography)
