THE INVASION ARMIES TAKE OVER THE RUNNING OF A SMALL HARBOUR ON THE CALVADOS COAST (PART 2) [Allocated Title]

More film of the Allies in the harbour of Port-en-Bessin, Normandy.

I. Allied medium bombers on their way to attack German formations moving up to the Normandy front fly over St Léger.

II. Undamaged fishing smacks lie moored together in Port-en-Bessin's inner harbour basin. A visual sweep over the main harbour from high ground at its eastern end (where the Germans have added to older fortifications by placing a Renault 17 FT tank turret on a concrete casement and where a Royal Navy harbour master party has now established itself) reveals RN LCTs and self-propelled barges unloading engineering equipment directly onto the quayside. Two German flak ships (one lying half-submerged) neutralised during the fight for Port-en-Bessin can also be seen. Offshore in a mass of shipping are two Free French cruisers, Montcalm and Georges Leygues, three US Navy destroyers, a corvette, an armed trawler and a lend-lease minesweeper in RN service. The camera focuses on damage wrought along the waterfront during the fighting and British sappers dismantling a reinforced concrete barrier denying access to the inner basin. Local inhabitants watch detachments from a newly-landed US Army road or airfield construction unit file along the cramped quayside.

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