Reel

From the British Ministry of Information. This is a film about an engineering feat put about by the British army: before and during the Normandy Invasion of June 6, 1944, Allied forces built a series of floating causeways and bridges in the English Channel creating a man-made harbor(code name 'mulberry').

Wide LS pan of Allied battleships and carriers sailing in the Channel just prior to the offensive.

LS horde of military aircraft in the sky. LSs of Allied battleships and carriers sailing in the Channel just prior to the offensive. MS's of the navy's big guns hammering the French coast.

Cuts between LSs of troop boats cruising & MSs men on the boats. LS/MS of Allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy.

MSs of Allied soldiers walking on land, well into the coast. MS of tanks rolling along a dismal and barren French country road. Cut to a CU of a map of the French countryside and immediate bodies of water.

Cut to good shots of British military installations on English coast securing & defending ports; big artillery guns and the platoons who love them. LS/MS troops on dock securing boats & equipment while rough waters surround them.