Thursday, February 26, 2015

Website: The Imperial War Museum, London England

The Imperial War Museum

By searching online at "Imperial War Museum Combined Operations" a number of links will lead to WW2 films and photographs, often accompanied by descriptions of, and links to, more materials and resources. Happy hunting, I say.

Link to the following to see some of the many possible items one can locate easily:

1. Combined Operations: Beach Organisation : A film, 24 minutes in length, from the extensive Imperial War Museum website.

Comments: A British Army instructional film made prior to the Allied invasion of Sicily in July 1943 describes with animated maps, graphics and live action sequences the role, structure and organisation of a Beach Maintenance Area during the initial stages of an amphibious landing on an enemy coast. (Courtesy of IWM website). A full, lengthy description is provided linked to the film's timeline. Live action views of various landing craft are provided.

Some views of beach terrain closely resemble that between Irvine and Troon, Ayrshire, Scotland. Associated places include Saunton Sands, Devon, England, UK

Associated events Operation Husky, Allied Invasion of Sicily 1943, Italy, Second World War

2. Combined Operations Commando Raid on Dieppe, 1942

Caption: Landing craft of No 4 Commando running in to land at Vasterival
on the right flank of the main assault at Dieppe. The unit achieved its objective,
the destruction of the 'Hess' Battery in a copybook action, the only success of the raid.

A wrecked Churchill tank bogged down in the Dieppe sand.

Tanks and landing craft burning on the beach after the Allied raid on Dieppe.

There are hundreds if not thousands of photographs just waiting to be found.


Photo credit: Imperial War Museum

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