Saturday, October 28, 2017

AFPU - Army Film and Photographic Unit


On 6 June 1944, Sergeant Ian Grant was among the thousands of men landing on Sword Beach in Normandy on D Day, armed only with a revolver and a cine camera. He was part of the Army Film and Photographic Unit (AFPU) and captured this incredible mute footage of the landings. Fewer than a dozen men filmed the D Day landings. 

Grant's short silent footage, and more footage from D Day, on IWM's Film Archive: https://bit.ly/iwmfilm-swordbeach .

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