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Title:GUNFIRE SUPPORT GROUP SIX BOMBARDS INCHON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 1740
Other titles:POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - KOREA [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: US and Royal Naval ships give support to the assault on Inchon by US Marine forces during Operation Chromite.
Description: LS pan left to right over the assembled invasion fleet - US attack transport, LST, etc. MS as USS Oglethorpe (AKA 100) passes right to left, followed by USS Achenar (AKA 53) - camera pans right to show other AKAs. Crewman on cameraship, HMS Kenya, surveys the coast through binoculars. MLS of US APA. MSs of starboard bow of USS Union (AKA 106) and T-AP Transport. HMS Jamaica passes right to left. LS pans over the coast - someone placing a card over the face of the camera to protect it from gun blast - and over the invasion fleet - smoke pall from the bombardment lies over the coast - Destroyer Squadron 91 is lying close inshore, and camera pans over the ships onto USS Henderson (785). USS Gurke (783) passes right to left. Final LS into cloudy sky - presumably to pick up aircraft.
Alternative Title:POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - KOREA [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Kenya (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Jamaica (regiment/service)
United States Navy & Oglethorpe (regiment/service)
United States Navy & Union (regiment/service)
United States Navy, USS ACHERNAR, attack cargo ship (1943) (regiment/service)
United States Navy, USS HENDERSON, destroyer (1945) (regiment/service)
United States Navy, USS GURKE, destroyer (1945) (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - cruiser: Jamaica (object name)
ships, British naval - cruiser: Kenya (object name)
ships, United States naval - destroyer: Henderson (object name)
ships, United States naval - destroyer: Gurke (object name)
ships, United States naval - amphibious: Oglethorpe (object name)
ships, United States naval - amphibious: Achenar (object name)
ships, United States naval - amphibious: Union (object name)
combat, United Nations naval - amphibious (object name)
combat, United Nations naval - bombardment (object name)
Korean War & Operation Chromite & 15/9/1950 (event)
Korea & Inchon (geography)