MULBERRY B; DUKW SHORE BASE; BULK FUEL INSTALLATION AT PORT-EN-BESSIN [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: MULBERRY B; DUKW SHORE BASE; BULK FUEL INSTALLATION AT PORT-EN-BESSIN [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 1995
  • Other titles: OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Various shots of DUKWs of 377 GT Company RASC plying back and forth off Arromanches, unloading cargo from a large converted collier (cf ADM 1994). Low tide. II. MS off the starboard quarter of HMS Fury lying aground below cliffs - the camera craft passes along the starboard side. Salvage crew are on deck. III. Stores pierhead. MS of pierhead and intermediate pontoon with cargo ships alongside. Barrage balloon overhead. MCU of second pierhead with US Army tug and tug T10.34 alongside - camera tracks right past telescopic roadway span to second pierhead with MY accommodation ship alongside. Track to third Spud - ML, MFV, and tug Servitor are alongside. CU as Fordson and Bedford OYC lorries leave the pierhead with POL cargo, passing the camera positioned on the Whale roadway. MS and LS views of the pierhead line, and LA.MS of Spud leg and control cabin. IV. DUKW shore base. DUKW of 377 GT Company RASC unloads M48 75mm ammunition. Coles 3-ton crane swings cargo net onto unloading platform, and ammunition cases are passed on a roller-conveyor to a waiting lorry. Mack MR9 10-ton 6x4 truck passes the camera with a cargo of jerry cans. Various views as DUKWs and amphibious jeep move up and down the beach. V. Bulk Fuel Installation, Port-en-Bessin. MS off the port beam of MFV 118 outside the harbour - taken from No 1 Discharge Point on the western harbour wall. CUs of valves and pipelines of discharge point - cable ship Goldbell lies alongside. CUs of No 2 Discharge Point on the eastern harbour wall, and fuel pipelines. Ruston-Bucyrus mobile crane unloads cargo from SS Gladonia - six inch pipeline is transferred to a 10-ton Mack Docks truck. Final MS pan over camouflaged fuel storage tanks - an up-turned cart is visible in the foreground.
  • Alternative Title: OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: ADM 1995
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-06-27
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor) RN Combat Film Unit No 1 (Production company) Dines, Gordon (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, FURY (HMS), destroyer (1934) (regiment/service) Royal Navy, MFV 118 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ships, British naval - destroyer: Fury & [wrecked] (object name) ships, British naval - escort: MFV 118 (object name) ships, British civilian - cargo: Gladonia (object name) ships, British civilian - assistance: tug (object name) ships, British civilian - communications: Goldbell (cable ship) (object name) ships, United States Army - assistance: tug (object name) engineering, military, British - Mulberry (object name) engineering, military, British - Mulberry: Spud pierhead (object name) transport, United States military - amphibious: DUKW & [British] (object name) transport, United States military - amphibious: amphibious jeep & [British] (object name) transport, British military - truck: Fordson (object name) transport, British military - truck: Bedford OYC (object name) transport, United States military - truck: Mack 10-ton 6x4 & [British] (object name) supplies, British, movement [RA] - munitions (object name) supplies, British, movement [RA] - POL (object name) supplies, British, storage [RA] - POL: bulk fuel installation (object name) equipment, British military - engineering: crane (object name) 01/5(4-16).1 (event) Arromanches-les-Bains, Calvados, France (geography) Port-en-Bessin, Calvados, France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 898 ft; Running time: 10 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

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