Good CMP footage

[Lang]

I don't know whether this has been posted before but there is a lot of good close-up CMP footage.

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/hu.../query/Humbers

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Lang,

Excellent footage, interesting to see the F15 4x2 trying to get off the beach.

Hanno

[David Dunlop]

Does anyone know what the 4-section circle on the windscreen of that CMP signifies? It also shows up on the side window of another vehicle in the film clip.

David

[Hanno Spoelstra]

I noticed it too ..... "Bang your head here" ?

All kidding aside, it is not a marking I have seen before and I wonder if this was a marking specifically applied for the landing operation?

H.

[David Dunlop]

Hanno.

My thoughts were along the lines of a landing sign as well. It is a very 'bright' marking and as such must have been of a temporary nature, so I bought it may have been used to sort equipment for loading onto landing craft.

The film looks to be related to landings in either Italy or Sicily, so perhaps this marking was unique to that operation for some reason. I don't recall ever seeing any similar windscreen marks on equipment landing at Normandy, so maybe after trying it in Italy the powers that be decided it was not necessary for D-Day.

Very curious none the less.

[Ganmain Tony]

Nice shot of a Cab 11/12 at 0:45 about to hit the beach

I was also curious about that windscreen marking - looks like a target

Thanks for sharing Lang

[The_Stainless_Steel_Rat]

Originally Posted by David Dunlop

Hanno.

My thoughts were along the lines of a landing sign as well. It is a very 'bright' marking and as such must have been of a temporary nature, so I bought it may have been used to sort equipment for loading onto landing craft.

The film looks to be related to landings in either Italy or Sicily, so perhaps this marking was unique to that operation for some reason. I don't recall ever seeing any similar windscreen marks on equipment landing at Normandy, so maybe after trying it in Italy the powers that be decided it was not necessary for D-Day.

Very curious none the less.

Could it have been a identifier for signalling the location of the driver, so that while unloading you knew where to look/direct the unloading, once its on the beach you'd want that off pretty quick unless you liked putting in fresh drivers all the time.

We have used similar markings like this to indicate where to look when unloading show vehicles that can have right or left hand drive and are hard to see the driver.

[chrisgrove]

But the driver of a CMP was the other side!

Chris