COMMANDOS PREPARE FOR THE D-DAY LANDINGS [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: COMMANDOS PREPARE FOR THE D-DAY LANDINGS [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 26-2
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  • Summary: Commandos are briefed on their part in the D-Day landings on Sword Beach and are issued with equipment and rations while still quartered in their sealed transit camp.
  • Description: An officer informs his NCOs of No 1 Special Service Brigade's plan of attack using a map model which illustrates the brigade's axis of advance from 'Queen Red' Beach at La Breche to the Orne bridges and its intended operations in Cabourg and Houlgate at the mouth of the Dives river. US Army storesmen issue commandos with 24-hour ration packs, cigarettes, chocolate and tinned meat. Men belonging to a commando support platoon pack 3-inch mortar bombs into ammunition pouches and don their bulky rucksacks. Several commandos gather round a Vickers medium machine gun; nearly all have clips of .303 ammunition attached to their sleeves.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: A70 26-2
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-06
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Army Film Unit (Production company) Grant, Ian James1917-04-16Family origin: Edinburgh, Scotland (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: GB, England (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 195 ft.; Running time: 2 mins.
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    A70 26-2

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