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Summary: Food supplies for Paris are prepared for despatch by road at a 21st Army Group Civil Affairs Base Port Depot in the village of Bussy near Bayeux.
Description: Former Spanish Republicans, civilian employees and RASC personnel load three-ton and ten-ton lorries with a cargo consisting variously of clothing, soap, tinned fish and meat, dried milk, margarine, biscuits, wheat and vegetables. Bags of flour, each weighing 140 lbs, are loaded onto a five-ton trailer which carries eighty such bags in all.
Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor)
Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company)
Palmer, F A W (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Army Gp 21 (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Army Service Corps (regiment/service)
Keywords: transport, United States military - truck: Mack 10-ton 6x4 (object name)
transport, British military - truck: White 10-ton 6x4 (object name)
transport, British military - truck: Bedford 3-ton 4x2 (object name)
operations, British military - relief (object name)
supplies, Allied, movement [RA] - food (object name)
Calvados, France (geography)