Other titles:OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:
Description: I. Views from HMS Aristocrat, lying alongside the line of blockships - east to the bridge of the Georgios, and west to line of caissons beyond Saltersgate. Tugs, MFV 610, and a LCVP are among the small craft secured alongside. Sequence filmed onboard a blockship - the partially submerged deck is awash, and an empty oil drum and dislodged air ventilator cap heave in the swell. LS pan showing the extent of the blockship breakwater.
II. LS to cliffs and floating roadway sections. MS from onboard DUKW X34, approaching the seawall at Arromanches. Camera examines the entanglements on top of the 'West Wall', and pans to a party of sappers clearing debris from a demolished section. MS of landward side of the 'West Wall'. MCU of oxy-acetylene cutter working on steel members in the reinforced concrete. Sequence showing the demolition of the Normandy Bar - in the background is the Hotel Normandie used as Docks HQ by STDO. Whale roadway is manoeuvred into position near its shore base. Various shots of the Naval HQ, the Villa d'Arromanches. View from a small craft (presumably a DUKW) passing Whale roadway sections lying offshore - tug T10.34 alongside.
III. CU-MS along the line of blockships. MS from Saltersgate to line of three caissons lying beyond the bows of the blockship, and pan to show a fourth caisson being towed into position. MS from camera on a Phoenix caisson to another being positioned by US Army tugs - blockship Alynbank (504) in the background. MCU of A1 Phoenix 60 with USN rescue tug (British Director Class) alongside - camera vessel circles the caisson.
Alternative Title:OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
