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Title:FREIGHTERS UNLOAD SUPPLIES AT ARROMANCHES [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 1235
Other titles:OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes at Arromanches during Operation Neptune.
Description: I. Arromanches. CU of a German notice warning of the presence of mines. Cut to a sequence shot on the deck of a vessel in the anchorage - a man holds up a pair of boots and looks about expectantly as though expecting someone to come forward and claim ownership; shirts and pairs of shorts are also held up - a masthead sale of clothing? Cut to men performing PT. A group of RN officers talk together. Various shots of the barrage balloon vessel HMS Haslemere inside the blockship line. A launch comes alongside the cameraship and Captain Petrie, the officer directing the laying down of the Mulberry harbour, comes onboard. Sequence shot from a DUKW showing freighters unloading inside the blockship line - the DUKW is at the eastern end of the anchorage and camera pans over the section of the line from 117 to 121 - Ingman, Agios Spyridon, Sirehei, Lynhaug. Sequence showing three US transports unloading into DUKWs at low tide (see ADM 1989). Cut to LS of camouflaged radar and communications centre on the high ground beyond Arromanches (see ADM 1990).
II. RE group armour is embarked on LCTs. MS to a LCT(5)s lying bows on to the beach, one with a Churchill SBG (Small Box Girder bridgelaying tank) onboard. Churchill AVREs embark, reversing up onto the LCTs. Men load boxes of rations onto a Sherman Crab - CU of the tank's running gear as it reverses onto a LCT. LA shot of raised SBG onboard LCT(5) 1408. A Churchill AVRE carrying a fascine joins a SBG on the embarkation hard. Final shot of LCT 1408 - freeboard is noticeably reduced by the weight of the Churchill SBG.
Alternative Title:OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]