SCENES OFF SWORD BEACH [Allocated Title]

I. MLS of Ouistreham lighthouse - a smokescreen (?) is being generated nearby - camera pans left to show the extent of the cloud. Gliders and tugs (Stirlings and Dakotas) pass overhead carrying 6 Airborne Division - the aircraft are silhouetted against the evening sky (HMS Frobisher, and HMS Ramillies, HMS Roberts and HMS Warspite are variously visible in lower frame).

II. LS over the invasion fleet - LCTs, LSTs, LSI(L) and Rhino, HQ ship Dacres, LCP(L), etc. A DUKW reverses into sea from LST 324 - anti-submarine trawler of Northern Chief type in the background. MCU of Rhino barge. MS to White Ensign flying at the stern of the cameraship - smoke shrouded coastline in the background. LST unloads onto a Rhino. S Class destroyer bombards. Pigeon rests on the cameraship. LSs of bomber formations. MS of LSI(S) Prins Albert of Assault Group J.4. MS of a 20mm emplacement on cameraship. MLS of the smoke pall from a landing craft hit by coastal batteries - rescue craft make towards the stricken vessel. LCTs form up. Crewman semaphores. LCR 457 passes - battleships of Force D visible in the background. Various shots onboard a LST - men resting on upper decks, a bridge scene, the gun crew of a 2-pounder AA. LS to smoke rising from explosions onshore. MS along the deck of the LST to the bridge, with the crew lined up in the foreground. MCU of ship's badge of LST 415 and the battle honours "AVOLA - REGGIO. ANZIO - SALERNO". LS of the support group bombarding - LCR in the foreground. Smoke pall rises from explosion onshore.

35mm