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WWII - 1942, HMS Queen Elizabeth Used as Troop Transport

Reel Number: 220848-07

Color: Colour

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1942

Country: AT Sea

Location:

TC Begins: 09:51:08

TC Ends: 09:56:18

Duration: 00:05:10

WWII - 1942, HMS Queen Elizabeth Used as Troop Transport CU Plaque: "Office of the Strategic Services". British flag of Merchant Marine, flying from ship; PAN down mast, to deck, showing British troops aboard. Looking down port side, towards after part of ship, showing rows of life boats ? military equipment. Troops on weather deck, underneath life boats. Two crewmen standing by a 50 cal. machine gun mounted at deck's edge. Gun crew standing by 4" gun. CU Looking down over machine gun mount. Crew standing by 50 cal. machine gun. CU Water-cooled 50 cal. machine gun - ship funnel in background. MCU Captain w/ a US Navy Captain coming out onto deck - a British Merchant Marine Captain talks w/ US Navy Captain. CU British Merchant Marine Captain w/ US Navy Captain w/ a submarine insignia over breast pocket. US Navy officer on deck smoking pipe. Two junior US Navy officers on deck. US Navy Commander on weather deck. Two British crewmen w/ a US Navy officer looking out over sea. 09:53:32 Signal flags flying from ship. MS Rocket-type launcher in a tub above weather deck. Sign: "Stand Well Clear, When Klaxon Sounds". Rocket launchers. 09:53:50 View over after part of ship; gun mount firing in BG. Various shots guns fired. Good shot big gun fired off stern of ship - loading gun. Small group of officers talking. Troops walking on deck. Two American naval destroyers underway. Four unid ships at sea. MS Wake behind ship. WW2; Atlantic; Wartime Transportation;

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