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Summary: Film of LCG(4)s and LCF(4) exercising in the Solent, May 1944.
Description: MS off starboard bow of LCF(4) 939 - she signals and open fire with 4.7-inch guns LS of invasion craft off the Needles - the camera pans to study the distant flight of a squadron of (/) Seafires. MS profile of bow of LCF as it fires 2-pounders - Needles in background. MS of port beam of LCG (good amidships detail). MLS profile, LCG. Forward 3/4 MS as two LCGs steam in line for a practice shoot. MS on the port beam and MCU of port bow as LCF fires Oerlikons and then 2-pounders. Good forward 3/4 MS as LCG(L)(4) fires main armament over the port quarter - pan to towed LCA(HR) and other LCGs in line astern. MS off the starboard bow of the lead vessel - she fires AA armament. Study of LCGs in line ahead - leading vessel fires. LS sequence showing LCGs anchored at sea - white cliffs in the back-ground. MS off port quarter of anchored craft - after turret fires. MS of LCG under way with pan to following vessels - they bombard a coastal range. Forward 3/4 MS as LCF(4) fires Oerlikons. MS off starboard bow as two LCGs pass the camera in line ahead.