Title:GENERAL MONTGOMERY ARRIVES IN THE NORMANDY BEACH-HEAD ON D PLUS 1 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:A70 34-1
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Summary:
Description: General Montgomery, Commander-in-Chief 21st Army Group and commander of all Allied land forces engaged in the Normandy landings, is welcomed aboard HMS Hilary moored off Juno Beach by Commodore Oliver RN, naval commander Force 'J' during the afternoon of June 6th. Next morning, a 633rd GT Company RASC DUKW amphibious lorry brings Montgomery and his ADC ashore on 'Mike Green' Beach at Graye-sur-Mer. He talks to the CO of No 7 Beach Group and the 8th Battalion King's Liverpool Irish, Lieutenant-Colonel Humphrey, and then drives off in his jeep, with his ADC to 21st Army Group HQ at Creully.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Johnson, John Norman1909 (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Humphrey (Lieutenant Colonel) (person)
Montgomery, Bernard Law (person)
Oliver (Commodore) (person)
British Army, Royal Army Service Corps, General Transport Coy 633 (regiment/service)
British Army, Army Gp 21 (regiment/service)
British Army, King's Regiment (Manchester and Liverpool), 8th Battalion (regiment/service)
British Army, Corps 1 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Hilary (regiment/service)
Keywords: delegations, British national - military: Montgomery visits Normandy (object name)
ships, British naval - : Hilary (object name)
transport, United States military - amphibious: DUKW & [British] (object name)
transport, United States military - light utility: jeep (object name)
Operation Overlord, Second World War (event)
Mike Beach, Graye-sur-Mer, Calvados, France (geography)
Courseulles-sur-Mer, Calvados, France (geography)
21st Army Group Headquarters, Creully, Calvados, France (geography)
