A Warm Reception For Paratroops (1940)

Full title reads: “A Warm Reception For Paratroops“. GV of soldiers of Black Watch Regiment lined up in farmyard listening to piper playing bagpipes. A bugler runs forward and sounds the alarm when the men run from the farm, they board charabancs and drive off along country lane towards spot where enemy paratroops are supposed to have landed. MS Bren gun carriers driving along lane towards camera followed by troops riding bicycles with which they have just been issued. VS of the troops arriving at the spot where the enemy are supposed to have landed. The troops arrive together in the coaches, on bikes and in the bren gun carriers. They then attack and capture the small group of men who take the part of the Germans and are entrenched beside a railway line. The captured troops are marched off as Prisoners of War. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES.