Description: Shots of a farmhouse (to be converted into a signals HQ) and of a jeep arriving. An airman (sergeant) is shown phoning (surrounded by cables). The sergeant enters a camouflaged tent (two takes) - close-up of signs reading 'Signal Office', 'Teleprinter Room'. A linesman is shown at work up a telegraph pole (out of focus); close-up of cable being paid out from a large reel; the linesman attaches a safety belt around the top of a telegraph pole - he then joins some wires and fixes them to the pole; more shots of cable being paid out.
Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company)
Hodges, Ken (Production individual)
Mackinnon (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: communications, British military - wire (object name)
engineering, military, British: laying of field telegraph (object name)
Normandy, France (geography)
