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RIGBY, J.P.

1973-0162

Film

1943

Canadian Army Film and Photo Unit

1. Canadians Train for Invasion Day: Men at Scottish and English Invasion training centres practice beach landings.~2. Cross-Channel Exercises: Soldiers board train and arrive at an English port for exercises; landing craft and ships move across the English Channel towards the French coast.~3. Heavy Ack-Ack: Canadian gunners at heavy ack-ack gunnery (3.7 Anti-Aircraft gun).~4. Lord Wavell Inspect Black Watch: Field Marshal Lord Wavell the Viceroy Designate of India visits Black Watch of Canada; inspection and march by.~5. Italy: a) New huge tank landing ships at beach landing. b) War correspondants, radio engineers Alex [MacDonald] and Paul Johnston of the Canadian Broadcasting Corperation; cutting a record.~c) Getting through enemy demolitions on the roads. d) 8th Amy troops and mule train in the mountains. e) German wreckage by the roads, moving through villages; happy Italian crowds.

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