Invasion, D-Day; 102 Beach Group

102 Beach Group Mike Sector, probably MIKE GREEN 01:00:03 Forward landing strip at St Croix-du-Mer on 10th June 1944. Several pairs of RAF Vickers Supermarine Spitfire Mk IXs (441 Squadron RCAF) fitted with belly drop tanks taking off, raising dust. 01:00:32 British or Canadian reinforcements disembarking on foot from a tank landing craft (LCT-103/2285) onto JUNO Beach: stores including 4 gallon jerrycans and boxes of HE artillery rounds unloaded (LCMs) moored at a jetty made from a Rhino barge section. 01:01:09 A head-on view of Royal Navy LCT-2189 lowering its bow ramp. Men wading ashore from an infantry landing craft into high water with the help of tethered ropes and carrying jerrycans from a tank landing craft: Beach Group labourers hammer stakes into the sand to secure sections of metal track PSP 01:01:32 The surf rolling in next to a heavy wooden beam. Buildings in Courseulles-sir-Mer with varying degrees of damage from the fighting in D-Day: men carrying out everyday chores weapons cleaning. British or Canadian infantrymen passing French civilians including s young mother and infant as they file through Courseulles s towards the frontline: a group of civilians chat to British or Canadian soldiers: an off-duty Military Policeman by a street corner decorated with Unit direction signs. 01:02:37 Cameraman Hoar’s slate. Three young French children and their mother at their front door: two heavy trucks roll past an MP on point duty. Four GIs, one of them a member of the 82nd Airborne Division, gamble with dice for Allied-issue French Invasion currency. 01:03:09 German steel hedgehog invasion obstacles, sunken invasion craft and other abandoned equipment at high tide on JUNO Beach:  British or Canadian troops file inland past a tall wayside Calvary (a French religious shrine). FV of the propellor on a Spitfire Mk IX starting up. A British or Canadian MP on point duty supervises the glow of traffic led by. DUKW amphibious lorry along a street in Courseulles . 01:03:49 A line of US combat troops files through a French town: two British MPs on point duty supervise the flow of lorry-loads of British troops through the town: British pioneers shovel up debris off a street into a tipper truck with writing “Don!t wave girls we’re British”: two Frenchmen push a cart loaded with personal possessions as military traffic rolls by 01:04:39 Filmed from a moving destroyer of a depth charge falling into the water and exploding underwater at a shallow setting. DUKW heads inland from a beach exit through Courseulles: British or Canadian soldiers use a well to collect water to wash their clothes and shave. 01:05:39 Bulldozer drawing a crane that is hoisting a badly damaged infantry assault craft (LCA) clear of JUNO Beach, DUKW coming alongside a coaster off JUNO Beach and a cargo net filled with ammunition crates being lifted out of the ship’s hold and onto the DUKW alongside: DUKWs heading through the anchorage from the coaster and emerging onto the beach at a DUKW landing point. 01:06:39 A bulldozer beach armoured recovery vehicle tows broken-down Sherman BARV out if the surf, 02:06:43 JUNO Beach: sappers laying wire mesh tracking on the sand: men preparing a meal, slicing bread. troops resting and sleeping on a seawall at the top of the beach built by the Germans; two men using spades to widen a beach exit, two LCMs beached by the low tide in the background: a view of general activity on the beach where a jetty consisting of Rhino barge sections has been built and numerous landing craft have been stranded by a receding tide, with a triple 20mm Polsten anti-aircraft gun in the foreground  - the camera follows a jeep as it is driven along a beach road past a beached US LCVP marked with a G. 01:07:38 Beach Group Signallers at work in a sandbagged emplacement on the top of the beach: Beach Group troops loading empty jerrycans into a DUKW’s cargo compartment. Carrying heavily/-laden kit bags disembarking from the Rhino jetty and marching in a column along the beach. An armoured bulldozer helping to create a level roadway along the beach by using its dozer blade. 01:08:37 A view of a landing stage and the jetty that Beach Group troops assembled from Rhino barge components. Casualty on a stretcher carried out of s German concrete bunker in use as a first aid post by Beach Group troops and a German medical officer  and put onto a jeep ambulance which is then driven away. Unloading crates of artillery projectiles from a DUKW. 01:09:38 END D-Day;