A brief glimpse with footage from a 1944 Ministry of Information film of Duckpool, the beach at the mouth of the Coombe Valley in north Cornwall. The beach was defended by anti-tank obstacles in 1940 (some of which can still be found in the sand). It sits just below RAF Cleave, the WW2 Anti-Aircraft gunnery school and now the site of GCHQ Bude. The nearby cliffs were used by the US Rangers for training in early 1944 for their D-Day assault on Point du Hoc. It is also within a site of scientific interest containing rocks from the Upper Carboniferous period. Being a wartime film none of the defence assets or military training is shown.
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Негізгі бет Duckpool in 1944
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