Chacewater in 1944

Chacewater is a small village between Truro and Redruth. It 1944 it sat on the main A390 road and was chosen as a US Sausage Camp (O-F) as the troops marshalled and embarked for D-Day. Thus the camp which stretched from Scorrier through Chacewater and then turned up onto Kerley Hill was home to 2800 troops preparing to liberate Europe. Just up the road on the B3277 there was another sausage camp (O-C) housing a further 2800 men running from Chiverton Cross to Threemilestone where it joined the A390 and continued into Truro past Treliske (now the site of the hospital) towards HigherTown. In this amazing footage from May/June 1944 we see Chacewater and the surrounding area as it's never been seen before or since! These troops embarked in Falmouth and were part of Force B arriving on Omaha at about 10:30am on D-Day.
If you can provide any more detail on the locations shown or details about the Sausage Camps please leave a comment.
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And my family come from this area and it been said that they American soldiers were camped down at poldice.. and when they left they through all the equipment down in the shaft which they couldn't take. There's a local saying for chasewater is scat ups great video

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If I had a pound for every Americans dumped their rubbish here story I've been told I'd be a millionaire. Strangely no one has ever yet produced that buried jeep or discarded equipment to silence my scepticism!!