Title:FORCE D BOMBARDS SWORD BEACH [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 1258
Other titles:OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:
Description: I. Initial sequences are badly underexposed - LSI with RNN Stord (G.28) and LCTs appear briefly.
II. LS of bow and stern sections of torpedoed RNN Svenner. MS of HMS Frobisher steaming with guns trained to starboard. Pan from the bridge of the camera ship (a destroyer) over invasion craft - LCR, S Class destroyers of 23rd Flotilla, a line of passing LCI(S)s (with LCF in the background). A LCG(L)(3) fires to shore - coast obscured by smokescreens and the effects of the bombardment. Two LCT(5)s lie anchored together. MLS as shells burst among LCMs approaching the beach. Destroyers, including the cameraship, make smoke. MS as LCT(4) 544 passes. LCG(L)(3) and the Hunt Class destroyer escort, HMS Middleton (L.74), bombard - LSH(L) Largs in the background - a pall of smoke rises over the distant coast. XLS of the column of smoke rising from a landing craft hit by German coastal batteries. LS of a destroyer making white smoke, the camera tracking right to a MS off the starboard beam of HMS Mauritius, at her bombardment position, turrets trained to port. LSs of the smoke-obscured coastline and destroyers laying black and white screens. A Halcyon Class (?) minesweeper signals. MS of minesweeping trawler. Final LS from cameraship to escort vessels underway in line ahead.
Alternative Title:OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Destroyer Flotilla, 23 (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, FROBISHER (HMS), heavy cruiser (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Middleton (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Mauritius (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Largs (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LCT4 544 (regiment/service)
Royal Norwegian Navy & Stord (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - cruiser: Frobisher (object name)
ships, British naval - cruiser: Mauritius (object name)
ships, British naval - destroyer: Middleton (L.74) (object name)
ships, British naval - destroyer: S Class (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: Largs (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LCG[L][3] (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LCT[4] 544 (object name)
ships, British auxiliary - minesweeper, ocean: minesweeping trawler (object name)
ships, Norwegian naval - destroyer: Stord (G.28) (object name)
ships, Norwegian naval - destroyer: Svenner & [wrecked] (object name)
weapons, British naval - CBW: smokescreen (object name)
combat, British naval - bombardment (object name)
combat, British naval - bombardment [i] (object name)
01/5(4-16).1 (event)
France (geography)
