WWII - 1943, Algeria: Coastal Landing Training & Glider Loading

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1943, Algeria: Coastal Landing Training & Glider Loading. 03-15Jun43 View from inside as nose of glider opened, soldiers push off artillery / 105mm Howitzer. 10:12:05 Slate: 15Jun43. Firing, 320 FA, Bat A. Firing 105mm Howitzer. 10:12:06 Troops run to artillery under minimal camouflage, load & fire. 10:12:31 CU medic inserting needle into wounded GI’s arm; MS bandaging injured arm. LS Army ambulance & injured on stretcher behind. 10:13:05 Slate: 03Jun43 Oujda. Paratroops demonstration. Smoke screen; dive bomb, paratroop drop, glider landing. 10:13:14 LS 9 C-47 planes towards camera very low over camera & parachutes on ground; passing over palm trees lining road, military equipment along road, multiple passes. GOOD. 10:14:32 Slate: Morang..not legible. Oujda Airport glider loading. MS men run & board glider; inside shot of men boarding w/ rifles, run in, sit & fit seatbelts on bench seats. 10:15:27 Ext. in front of glider, soldiers unhook artillery from jeep & prepare to load into glider, lift tail & open nose. Push & pull howitzer into glider. 10:17:23 Slate: 11Jun43 Camera: Cook. 142nd Inf, 3rd Battalion. Landing Ranger Beach. Combat practice landing. Large white phosphorus grenades explode, smoke clouds rising from edge of desert mountains. 10:18:11 Slate: same. White phosphorus smoke clouds rising as above (film pull-back starting again from 10:17:23). 10:19:18 Landing craft towards shore from high angle thru drifting smoke, onto shore & men off & up sandy beach & cliffs. MLS running thru shrubs; along cliff above wavers. 10:21:08 High angle, soldiers running ashore from landing craft & over barbed wire. Up cliff / hillside. 10:21:51 White smoke clouds rising above ridge. 10:22:06 Slate: Camera: L.R. Cook, Sgt. 15Jun43 Marnia Airport Glider Loading 320 Glider F.a. Bat B. MCU pushing artillery into front & glider & closing nose. Infantry Training; C47; NOTE: Sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk