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Title:51ST INFANTRY DIVISION GOES ASHORE IN SICILY [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 461
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Summary: Men and equipment go ashore near Cape Passero.
Description: I. Reel One. The beaches. LCTs lie in the shallows. Carriers tow 6-pounder AT and 3.7-inch pack howitzers up the beach. A jeep wades ashore. A carrier wades ashore - the shallows are rocky and the vehicle has a very uneven ride. Italian POWs go into a LCT to give assistance to British troops who are unloading ammunition. A sergeant frisks the Italian prisoners, some of whom carry a few personal belongings. LCA 625 lands troops who climb up the steep shore. More LCTs run ashore. CUs of Italians helping to bring stores ashore - some of the POWs smoke, one lighting up his cigarette from another held by a British soldier. An Italian receives first aid, his face being swabbed free of blood. Another group of prisoners is brought in. A Bren gun carrier moves inland, and British troops ride on a commandeered Fiat cargo truck. CUs of Italian wall slogans, CREDERE - OBBEDIRE - COMBATTERE E VINCEREMO and W IL RE - W IL DUCE. LCT disembarks Sherman tanks and a cut-down Matador tractor. HA sequence from onboard a LSI as heavily laden troops transfer into a LCA to go ashore - one carries a 2-inch mortar, another a canvas-wrapped Thompson SMG. MS from shore to a LCI(L) in the shallows, men disembarking down the starboard brow ramp. The troops wade ashore along a guide-line - in the background is LCT 397, a drowned vehicle near its lowered ramp. CU of a member of a RN beach party sitting on a dune signalling to sea with Aldis lamp. An LST runs inshore, bow doors open - in the foreground is a HDML. LSTs are grouped along the beach - offshore are a hospital ship and the auxiliary AA ship Ulster Queen with the usual LSIs, LSTs and LCTs. Sequence shot from a LST steaming in line ahead with others. CU of RN Commando radio operator in signals section of a beach party. LST 304 disembarks Bedford OY trucks.
II. Reel Two. At sea with fast troop convoy. LST 410 passes left to right - HMS Largs in the background. LSs over invasion convoy, mainly comprised of LSTs, some in camouflage - HMS Bulolo and the Princess Beatrix Class LSI(M)s also appear. MS of Oerlikon platform in eyes of the cameraship - troops and their kit crowd the deck, some of the soldiers stripped to the waist in the Mediterranean sun. MS of HMS Ulster Queen as she passes at speed in fresh weather. LSs of HMS Largs, a Princess Beatrix Class LSI(M) and an escorting Fairmile B motor launch. LS astern to a LSI and LCI(L)s in an increasingly heavy sea. Night firing sequence - a single burst of tracer. Dawn landing - MS silhouettes of men and vehicles coming ashore from LCAs and LCTs. The first POWs are escorted down the beach.
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Largs (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Bulolo (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Ulster Queen (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LST 304 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LST 410 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LCT 397 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LCA 625 (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - amphibious: LST 397 (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LST 410 (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LCT[3] 397 (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LCA 625 (object name)
ships, British auxiliary - anti-aircraft, ocean: Ulster Queen (object name)
ships, British auxiliary - amphibious: LSH Largs (object name)
ships, British auxiliary - amphibious: LSH Bulolo (object name)
armour, British - carrier: Universal (object name)
armour, United States - tank: M4 Sherman & [British] (object name)
communications, British naval - direct: Aldis lamp (object name)
communications, British naval - electronic: radio (object name)
medical, British military - emergency: field dressing post (object name)
weapons, British - gun: 6-pounder AT (object name)
weapons, British - gun: 3.7-inch Pack Howitzer (object name)
transport, Italian military - truck: Fiat light 4x4 CL39 & [impressed] (object name)
operations, British naval - amphibious (object name)
prisoners of war, Italian - labour (object name)
propaganda, Italian - inspirational: wall slogans (object name)
Operation Husky, Allied Invasion of Sicily 1943, Italy, Second World War (event)
Italy & Sicily (geography)