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Title:FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY VISITS MULBERRY B [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 1282
Other titles:OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:
Description: LCP(L) 81 comes alongside pierhead, and Vice-Admiral Willis and First Lord of the Admiralty, A V Alexander, come onboard. MCU as Willis, Alexander and Captain Hickling (NOIC) pose together informally. Alexander walks off with a small party to inspect the pierhead. MS of Admiral Vian in conversation with anonymous captain RN - Vian gets into a staff car. MCU of Vice-Admiral Dalrymple-Hamilton (?) talking. Frontal MS of a captured Kfz 15 (Chevrolet) staff car - the car drives off along Whale roadway to Arromanches accompanied by a motorcycle escort. A Humber staff car and RN jeep ('Patricia Ann') follow.
Alternative Title:OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Willis, Algernon Usborne (person)
Dalrymple-Hamilton, Frederick Hew George (person)
Vian, Philip Louis (person)
Alexander, Albert Victor (person)
Hickling, Harold (person)
Royal Navy, LCPL 81 (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - amphibious: LCP[L] 81 (object name)
transport, German military - car: Kfz 15 (Chevrolet) & [impressed] (object name)
transport, British military - utility: Humber FWD (object name)
transport, United States military - car: jeep & [British] (object name)
engineering, military, British - Mulberry (object name)
delegations, British national - military (object name)
delegations, British national - political (object name)
01/5(4-16).1 (event)
Arromanches-les-Bains, Calvados, France (geography)