69 Us Jet Fighters Arrive - On Normal Training 1948

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Full title reads: "69 US JET FIGHTERS ARRIVE - ON NORMAL TRAINING".

Glasgow, Scotland.

Long shot of the US aircraft carrier 'Sicily' alongside dock in Glasgow. Personnel lining rails. Stern, jet fighters and US flag. Colonel H. R. Spicer points out details of a jet plane to Air Vice-Marshall...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
46768
Sort Number:
48/065
Time in/Out:
01:48:54:00 / 01:49:46:00
Canister:
48/65
Film ID:
1434.27
Issue Date:
12/08/1948

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