ENGLISH CHANNEL, DEFENCE: Combined Operational Invasion Exercises in the English Channel (1943)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Good shots of battleships on manouevres in the English Channel. Full Description: AT SEA: ENGLISH CHANNEL: LV Day shot: Line of merchant ships with invasion barges hanging from sides. (shot from deck of ship) SV 2 lookouts in towers, merchant ships in bg under way. CU Man with telephone, 3 merchant ships in bg. SBV Sailor by sighting apparatus on ship. Shot on board of man with earphones on and gun, pan to wash and 2 merchant ships behind and type of with invasion barges behind them pan to 4 corvettes behind Very long scene. SV 2 men at sights and gun. GV Merchant ships and corvettes under way, taken from ship with flag in fg. GV 4 corvettes or destroyers and invasion barges behind them. LV RAF rescue launch GV Pan 2 planes laying smoke screen and passing ship, pan back showing smoke spreading over water. SSV Merchant ships under way showing invasion bar