Summary: This film shows the use of smoke to screen a coastal battery from the sea prior to an attempted landing.
Description: A Blenheim Mk IV flies across the target area head on to the camera and drops its phosphorus bombs. Thereafter the bombing runs are seen from the side. The rest of the reel shows the effects of the spread of the resultant smokescreen across the sand flats from various angles. There are good views of troops in their clifftop emplacements and of some of the coastal defences on the beach.
Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production sponsor)
RAF Film Production Unit (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force, Sqdn 614 (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Bristol Blenheim Mk IV (object name)
weapons, British air - bomb: 100-pound, Mk I White Phosphorus (object name)
defences, British - emplacement: coastal (object name)
Winterton-on-Sea, Norfolk, England, UK (geography)
High Cape, Norfolk, England, UK (geography)
