Meet Les Paras
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 5
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Meet Les Paras. DESCRIPTION: The first of a company of French paratroops, known as Les Paras, arrived by air at Abingdon RAF Station. They were over on a flying visit for a liaison exercise with Britain’s First Parachute Regiment. The idea was to take part in a drop over Dartmoor. But our Spring weather was so bad, that part of the exercise had to be cancelled. A good tuck-in was regarded as the best way to welcome our French allies. SHOTLIST: Key scene. Plane arrives. Men out of plane. Man. Troops out of plane. Troops. Men get food. Pan men sit at table and eat food.
- Keywords
- Military
- Locations
- Oxfordshire; Abingdon
- Card file number
- 84156
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Ronald E. Collins
- Length of story (in feet)
- 80
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