A Harbour Goes To France
A Harbour Goes To France
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').
A Harbour Goes To France
Wide LS pan of Allied battleships and carriers sailing in the Channel just prior to the offensive.
A Harbour Goes To France
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.
A Harbour Goes To France
Cuts between LSs of troop boats cruising & MSs men on the boats. LS/MS of Allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy.
A Harbour Goes To France
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.
A Harbour Goes To France
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.