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1943 ENGLISH CHANNEL / DEFENCE: Combined Operational Invasion Exercises in the English Channel
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2:53Now PlayingDate: 1st January 1943
Location: MISCELLANEOUS SEAS, ENGLISH CHANNEL
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
AT SEA:
ENGLISH CHANNEL:
LV Day shot: Line of merchant ships with invasion barges hanging from sides. (shot from deck of ship) SV 2 look-outs in towers, merchant ships in b-g under way. CU Man with telephone, 3 merchant ships in b-g. SBV Sailor by sighting apparatus? on ship. Shot on board of man with earphones on and gun, pan to wash and 2 merchant ships behind and type of M.T.B. with invasion barges behind them pan to 4 corvettes behind Very long scene. SV 2 men at sights and gun. GV Merchant ships and corvettes under way, taken from ship with flag in f-g. GV 4 corvettes or destroyers and invasion barges behind them. LV RAF rescue launch? GV Pan 2 planes laying smoke screen and passing ship, pan back showing smoke spreading over water. SSV Merchant ships under way showing invasion barges at sides of ship. LBV Merchant ships under way.
LV Side destroyer under way, guns and man of another ship in f-g. LV L. 27 - destroyer cutting in front of ship from which shot is taken. LV Side L. 27 under way. LV Pan 2 merchant ships with invasion barges on sides under way with 2 destroyers behind them with wash and guns in f-g of ship from which shot is taken. (Very long scene. GV 2 merchant ships and other under way, gun etc of ship from which shot is taken, in f-g.
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