The Battles For The Beaches: Reel-1

Shot List:

r1:00:00:39;15

View of the White Cliffs of Dover, surf breaking upon rocky coastline. England prepares for war. Civilians loading sand bags and erecting sand bag parapets around buildings, CU shot of the British Home Guard initially Local Defense Volunteers or LVD troops marching up road carrying rifles. CU of two Home Guard troops manning a machine gun, view of machine gun emplacement. CU Home Guard trooper standing along coastline looking out at sea. LS looking out across English village. Home Guard walking along barbed wire fence erected on outskirts of village.

r1:00:01:04;18

German fortifications along the coast of German occupied France showing camouflaged gun position, observers, heavy concrete, coastal gun positions. German officer talking to other officers. Workers building large concrete structure to house a German coastal gun. Workers handling a German 40.6 cm SK c/34 Adolfkanone Adolf naval gun. CU German anti-aircraft gun positions along coastline.

r1:00:01:31;07

U.S. Marines making a beach landing under fire, wading through the surf, running across beach amid explosions. CU of bodies of dead soldiers lying in ditch along road. CU of 3-star Lieutenant General Mark Clark in England conferring with other officers in late 1942.

Crew of a B-25 Mitchell bomber being congratulated by General Douglas MacArthur. Smiling Jack nose art on B-25 bomber.

r1:00:02:01;09

Scenes of landing crafts LCVP or Higgins boat going toward shore. Front ramp of landing craft drops and soldiers rush out of landing craft. Hitting the beach from a landing craft Higgins boat. CU sign reads Dunkerque. Anti-aircraft gun on English ship as camera pans showing British troops on shore line waiting evacuation in bg. LS across open terrain at several British tanks on cliff along coastline.

r1:00:02:43;12

German Dictator Adolf Hitler looking through binoculars across the English Channel at the coastline of England and the White Cliffs of Dover. Hitler walking with staff officers. Shows large German coastal gun firing. View across English Channel at the White Cliffs of Dover from German occupied Europe.

r1:00:03:10;05

British English soldiers lining up in formation in open area, with barracks in bg. English British Home Guard doing manual of arms. Observer in a coastal defense observation post in England Britain. Head-on shot of a British battleship underway toward camera, scene of an aircraft carrier in bg.

British sailor on a ship looking through binoculars. CU of a Supermarine British Spitfire in flight. LS Spitfires diving through the sky. B-26 Martin Marauders passing directly over camera plane. CU of B-26 Martin Marauder aircraft in flight over water, British insignia on side of B-26 Martin Marauder aircraft. Aerial view of target city and harbor. CU of bombs being released from bomb bay, ground explosions. GSAP ring sight, B-26 aircraft strafing a ship at sea.

r1:00:03:53;19

CU treads of fast moving German tank. Front view German tank coming toward camera with crew members standing open hatches of tank. German half-track loaded with German troops towing a field artillery gun.

r1:00:04:10;07

British commando raid on German occupied Europe. British commandos landing along shoreline and dashing across rocky terrain. LS across flat open terrain showing German Communication Tower and Building, explosion blowing installation apart. LS across water at three huge gas tanks showing explosion and flame. CU construction of building showing framework being blown up, flame and smoke rising from area. British commandos aboard Higgins boat pulling away from shoreline, smoke in far bg.

r1:00:04:31;08

Japanese troops aboard a ship flying a Japanese flag. Japanese loading into invasion barge. Japanese invasion of an island in the Pacific. Japanese soldier advancing up over concrete parapet, heavy columns of black smoke rising in bg. Japanese Rising Sun flag tied to rifle carried by Japanese soldier. Map depicting Japan's Asia-Pacific war in WWII.

r1:00:04:51;06

America plans for war was a focus on amphibious invasion of Pacific Islands occupied by Japan and German occupied Europe. United States Capitol building and the Navy Department building in Washington D.C. in the early 1940s. Naval commanders in conference. Group of Army officers looking at a map on a table. Group with small maps using a large wall map to point out location. Army officers planning an island invasion. Arrow sign reads Naval Research Lab. Naval Research Laboratory showing naval officers conferring with civilians technicians discussing invasion, with blueprints on the table. Naval Research Laboratory personnel at desk planning the invasion. CU Naval technicians operating instrument used for testing of ships structure. Hydrodynamic study of ship structure. Conference room showing army and navy and air force personnel discussion invasion.

r1:00:05:40;18

Large crowd of U.S. civilian defense workers on a pier, cut to workers inside a steel mill, cut to a CU of milling machine cutter blade. Building of landing crafts (Higgins boats). Launching of landing craft from dry dock. Shows several LCT's Landing Craft Tanks at anchor near pier, tug in immediate fg. Workers crowding rail of tank landing craft LCT 340 and LCT 341.

r1:00:06:16;0

Amphibious invasion training of U.S. soldiers. Soldiers practice climbing down cargo nets from a high structure imitation ships and practice rushing from a wooden model of an invasion landing craft. Soldiers riding in models of landing crafts mounted on jeeps. Live fire training. Soldiers crawl across muddy ditch with machine gun fire overhead and shells bursting in the area. CU, American soldier G.I. laying in prone position across barbed wire entanglement, other soldiers using this G.I. as a stepping stone to cross a barbed-wire entanglement. CU several combat soldiers holding rifles which are used as a ladder for other soldiers to jump over a barbed wire entanglement.

r1:00:07:31;08

Invasion convoy of ships underway at sea. Destroyer escort going through convoy and an aircraft carrier underway. Quick shots taken aboard ship showing sailors performing duties, gun operators sitting in turrets, men on deck of ship lounging around. Infantry soldiers sitting around on deck of ship at sea. Several shots of the officers standing on bridge of ship. CU ship gun turrets. CU sailors scanning sea for enemy ships or planes. CU aircraft spotters scanning sky with binoculars.

Japanese planes attack a convoy of ships. Grumman F4F Wildcat navy fighter planes taking off from deck of aircraft carrier. CU ship anti-aircraft guns firing, shows anti-aircraft bursts in sky. Japanese fighter diving through anti-aircraft fire toward deck of aircraft carrier. CU quad-mounted Bofors anti-aircraft guns firing. Shows Japanese plane hit.

r1:00:08:26;19

Dramatic scene of Japanese plane shot down in WWII. CU barrels only of anti-aircraft guns firing. Sailors on flight deck duck for cover as Japanese Zero is hit, disintegrates into a fireball just missing the ship and crashes into the sea.

r1:00:08:55;23

A model of the island to be invaded is used as an officer points out the different invasion beach landing areas. CU officers discussing the invasion maneuvers. CU sailor communicating between ships using a blinker light. CU deck of aircraft carrier showing elevator bringing up fighter aircraft from hangar deck below flight deck. Scenes taken at dusk showing F-4F planes taking off from aircraft carrier flat top. Men preparing for invasion aboard ship showing Higgins boat being lowered from side of cargo ship. Men going down cargo net into Higgins boat. LS freighter anchored at sea, Higgins boat alongside. Marines in camouflage uniforms going down rope ladders into the Higgins boat. CU Army officer, General, scanning horizon with binoculars. Naval barrage as destroyers and battle ships fire all guns. CU guns of battleships firing. LS coastline with heavy columns of black smoke rising in area. U.S. planes strafing Japanese Navy seaplanes, base hangar buildings and aircraft stationary in front of hangars near the water. GSAP scenes of the strafing of Japanese aircraft on ground of airfield. GSAP view of U.S. fighter plane shooting down a Japanese aircraft, explosion of same. LS taken from water, showing unidentified aircraft falling in flames in back of Higgins boat, pulling in toward coastline.