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The HMS Rodney is seen shelling the German occupied channel island of Alderney in 1944 in this archive footage from World War II. • For Archive Licensing Enquiries Visit: https://goo.gl/W4hZBv • Explore Our Online Channel For FULL Documentaries, Fascinating Interviews Classic Movies: https://goo.gl/7dVe8r • #BritishPathé #History #WWII #Navy #RoyalNavy #ChannelIslands • Subscribe to the British Pathé YT Channel: https://goo.gl/hV1nkf • (FILM ID:1099.4) • Title reads: Rodney shells Alderney . • Off French coast, near Channel islands. • L/S of battleship HMS Rodney at sea. Various L/Ss of convoys of ships and barrage balloons crossing Channel. Various shots of below of British destroyer, we see gun crews getting ready (putting on flak jackets and anti-flash helmets etc.). L/S of HMS Rodney off Cherbourg Peninsular, France. Various good shots of gunners on destroyer loading one ton shells into guns. Various shots of shells being fired over peninsula to German occupied island of Alderney. Various C/Us of sailors and officers looking through binoculars and telescopes to see the damage they have done. • Note: cameraman filming gunners at work is Jock Gemmell. Narrator mentions him by name. • BRITISH PATHÉ'S STORY • Before television, people came to movie theatres to watch the news. British Pathé was at the forefront of cinematic journalism, blending information with entertainment to popular effect. Over the course of a century, it documented everything from major armed conflicts and seismic political crises to the curious hobbies and eccentric lives of ordinary people. If it happened, British Pathé filmed it. • Now considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world, British Pathé is a treasure trove of 85,000 films unrivalled in their historical and cultural significance. • British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website. https://www.britishpathe.com/

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