Video - Royal Marine Commandos & Norwegian troops attacking Westkapelle, Walcheren

A film from the IWM collection; Unedited film of Marine commandos and Norwegian troops attacking Westkapelle, Walcheren.

The correct sequence is distorted but the film features:

1. LCTs at sea, with some enemy shellfire landing about them. Naval vessels in the background.

A Norwegian Sniper takes a shot (Screen Capture)

2. LCTs disembarking troops and armoured equipment.

3. Troops advancing through sand dunes towards a burning house, whence come Germans carrying a flag of surrender.

4. Sherman tanks in action in the town, and being reloaded from a tracked supply vehicle.

5. Soldiers advancing warily through the town. They pass a Churchill.

Royal Marines Officers on Walcheren with Sherman Tanks in Support (Screen capture)

6. Troops dug in and advancing in mutual support through a sparse wood.

7. A Typhoon circling over a wood - strafing and rocket attack. 8. Columns of surrendered German troops - one smiles into the camera, a German delaying to pick up his kit is gestured at with a gun.

9. Local populace greeting soldiers and parading and hoisting the Belgian flag.

Other clips include: German notices warning of mines; a bunker called "Waldfrieden"; British troops relaxing and drinking from a water bottle; a soldier on a stretcher and one lying dead; armoured Red Cross vehicles; the Norwegian flag among troops' baggage, and rigged over a burnt-out vehicle; men with radio equipment; a Thompson SMG being field stripped; Bren gun firing; and a soldier firing and loading a captured Dreyse MG13.

See the original film here https://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060021679

More related Royal Marines History 'Dits'

1. I Was There! - I Saw the Royal Marines Go In at Walcheren 

2. Operation Infatuate - The Battle of Walcheren 

3. Landing Craft Support Squadron - Operation Infatuate

4. 47 Cdo - Training for Operation Infatuate

5. 47 CDO RM - Attack on Battery W11 Walcheren

6. 41 CDO - Neutralizing W17 battery - Operation Infatuate

7. 41 CDO Mortared in the Dunes 

8. Sgt Robert Greer LCG 1 - Walcheren

9. Sinking of LCF 37 - Walcheren

References/ further reading:

1. Walcheren 1944: Storming Hitler's island fortress [Richard Brookes]

2. Wonen an Zee (Website)