French newsreel, Actualités Derniére Edition, Dieppe Raid

About this film

Naval Photographic Center film #3908. French newsreel, Actualités Derniére Edition, about the Dieppe Raid. Mislabeled at the National Archives as "Dieppe Raid, 07/01/1949." National Archives description: 1) MS CU Relief map with the circle and word "Dieppe" coming out of the picture. 2) MS Spitfires going overhead. 3) LS Field gun covered by camouflage nets. 4) GV Machine guns manned by Germans. 5) GV Germans running out of fortifications under the trees. 6) MS Four Germans in streets - one of them is ready to throw a hand grenade. 7) Interior scenes of German soldier operating machine gun. Explosions outside, seen from the window. 8) PAN Groups of British Commandos as they come ashore. Some wounded, carried in stretchers. 9) MS LCP(R)S beached. Some smoking. Disabled tanks on waterline. 10) GV German soldiers marching with their hands up in the air. 11) GV Wreckage of buildings; still smoking. Many disabled tanks. 12) PAN AV City, showing tanks and landing craft stalled on the beaches.QUALITY GOOD(FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION SEE OTHER SIDE.) 13) MS Dead troops lying on beach in a long, barbed wire entanglement. Canadian and British troops. 14) GV LSTs and LVTs, amphibious tanks,…

Directors & creators

France-Actualités

Subjects

WWII, Newsreel, Dieppe Raid, 1942, World War II, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France, World War, 1939-1945, World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners And Prisons, German

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