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Series
- Series Name
- British Paramount News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 2
- Summary
- The Second Front opens at last. First rush pictures of greatest event in military history include actual bombing of German defence targets, embarkation of Airborne Arm on troop carriers and subsequent flight over the Channel. Prime Minister, Field Marshal Smuts and Ernest Bevin go aboard invasion craft to bid God Speed to English troops. Allied navies bear main responsibility of putting armies safely on French soil. Tremendous naval bombardment shatters German coast defences. Graphic representation of beachhead fighting shows how airborne troops effectively harassed the enemy.
- Keywords
- Politics and government; Ships and boats; Aviation; Navy; Military
- Locations
- France
- Library number
- 13867
- Length of story (in feet)
- 766
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Production Documents
This series is held by:
Film Archive
- Name
- Reuters Archive Licensing: Screen Ocean
- info@screenocean.com
- Web
- http://reuters.screenocean.com/
- Phone
- +44(0)1954 262052
- Address
- 124 Horseferry Road,
London
SW1P 2TX - Notes
- British Pathe Ltd (qv) also handles the Reuters Historical Collection, which includes the British Paramount, Empire British, Gaumont Graphic and Gaumont British newsreels.
- Series held
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