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Object description
The 21st Independent Parachute Company, 1st Airborne Division on an exercise, demonstrating their use as sea landing troops south of Sousse.
Content description
View looking forward over the bows of one of the DUKW craft with a Bren gunner sitting on the prow and two other craft ahead. Another similar shot nearer land with the Bren gunner on alert. View of the beach with palm trees. Men wading ashore from the ship. Close up of men wading ashore from a second craft. Panning shot of crew jumping down and taking cover at the edge of the beach. Troops disappearing amongst cactus plants. Men advancing in single file past cactus. A pair of soldiers, one with a rifle and one with a Sten gun dash through a gap in the cactus. Troops move across a roadway. Panning shot of a man jumping up from cover and running down the roadway. Troops using a Camouflet Set to make a hole in the road for the placing of charges. An overturned truck blazes in the background. In the corner of a trench a soldier presses the plunger and the road is blown up.
Physical description
35mm
