D-Day in colour
Shot by Royal Canadian Navy Film Unit (Lieutenants Shaw and Beddoe)
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STK-ID 13587
Colour footage : LS of rockets being fired as Royal Canadian Navy and allied ships blast the French coast from channel positions. Shots of deck gun on destroyer firing, LS of flashes of guns on horizon, RT officer instructing gun crew as to position etc. (06/06/1944 or 07/06/1944).
- Year
- 1944
- Location
- Normandy, English Channel
- Collection
- National Film Board
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STK-ID 13586
Colour footage : Men preparing and lowering detonator wire to blow up obstacle, shots of Canadian Army men on deck on crossing (06/06/1944 or 07/06/1944).
- Year
- 1944
- Location
- English Channel
- Collection
- National Film Board
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STK-ID 13585
Colour footage : Two landing crafts bobbing in ocean like corks, good sequence showing them bucking heavy seas (06/06/1944 or 07/06/1944).
- Year
- 1944
- Location
- English Channel
- Collection
- National Film Board
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STK-ID 13584
Colour footage :Royal Canadian Navy officer and Canadian Army officer on ship, chatting with men (06/06/1944 or 07/06/1944).
- Year
- 1944
- Location
- English Channel
- Collection
- National Film Board
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STK-ID 13583
Colour footage : Two LSs of invasion fleet crossing English Channel, MS of same. Individual and PAN shot of entire fleet in channel on their way to France (06/06/1944 or 07/06/1944).
- Year
- 1944
- Location
- English Channel
- Collection
- National Film Board
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STK-ID 13582
Colour footage : Shot of LCL-263 moving out of harbour, of LCL-299 moving out on the way to France, landing craft is loaded with Canadian Army personnel. Shots of landing craft assaults and landing craft tanks leaving harbour with part of invasion fleet in background (06/06/1944 or 07/06/1944).
- Year
- 1944
- Location
- Southampton (England)
- Collection
- National Film Board
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STK-ID 13596
Colour footage : Shots of crew, setting and hauling in buoys and more shots of minesweepers (06/06/1944 or 07/06/1944).
- Year
- 1944
- Location
- English Channel
- Collection
- National Film Board
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STK-ID 13595
Colour footage : Good shots of convoy of minesweepers at sea (06/06/1944 or 07/06/1944).
- Year
- 1944
- Location
- English Channel
- Collection
- National Film Board
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STK-ID 13594
Colour footage : Swish PAN to HMCS Blairmore (J-314) a fleet minesweeper at sea. Side view of HMCS Blairmore at sea (06/06/1944 or 07/06/1944).
- Year
- 1944
- Location
- English Channel
- Collection
- National Film Board
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STK-ID 13593
Colour footage : Bow of ship bucking heavy sea and TILT UP to other ships in the convoy (06/06/1944 or 07/06/1944).
- Year
- 1944
- Location
- English Channel
- Collection
- National Film Board
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STK-ID 13592
Colour footage : Signal flags being hoisted, buoys for minesweeper being laid, and being hauled onto deck by pulley (06/06/1944 or 07/06/1944).
- Year
- 1944
- Location
- English Channel
- Collection
- National Film Board
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STK-ID 13591
Colour footage : Shot of ships underway in the English Channel, of Royal Canadian Navy rating using signal lamp (06/06/1944 or 07/06/1944).
- Year
- 1944
- Location
- English Channel
- Collection
- National Film Board
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STK-ID 13590
Colour footage : MCS of "HMCS Cowitchan" (Corvette J-146) passing camera. Men in lifeboat coming aboard HMCS Cowitchan (06/06/1944 or 07/06/1944).
- Year
- 1944
- Location
- English Channel
- Collection
- National Film Board
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STK-ID 13589
Colour footage : Men rowing lifeboat and small flotilla of same passing minesweeper (06/06/1944 or 07/06/1944).
- Year
- 1944
- Location
- English Channel
- Collection
- National Film Board
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STK-ID 13588
Colour footage : Sequence showing rockets being fired from ships lined up offshore. Flashes light the sky as rockets go off in sequence of fours (06/06/1944 or 07/06/1944).
- Year
- 1944
- Location
- Normandy, English Channel
- Collection
- National Film Board
