Hovercraft Joins Up (1959)

Title reads: “Hovercraft Joins Up“. Eastney, Hampshire. Army Navy Air Force combined operation - Exercise Runaground. L/S helicopter having just landed with troops running past camera in foreground. Soldiers alighting hurriedly from the helicopter. C/U soldiers with radio transmitter. L/S plane coming over the beach, it drops a bomb and the bomb explodes. Assault forces disembark from landing craft and run up the beach. G/V soldiers running up beach. C/U two foreign officers. G/V truck being driven off a large landing craft and onto the beach, followed by another. C/U officers looking through binoculars. A truck moves through the sea towards the beach, a tank does likewise. Officers watching. C/U Saunders-Roe Hovercraft moving across the sea. C/U Canadian officer. The Hovercraft comes up the beach. C/U an Indian officer. M/S Hovercraft hovering over the beach and then reversing out above the sea. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ