Action! By American Ambulance Units 1940

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Full title reads: "Action! By American Ambulance Units".

GV explosion in centre of field.

VS of English girls in an American equipped ambulance unit showing their daily routine. Shots of them leaving in the ambulances on an exercise - they carrying mock injured people on stretchers...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
21245
Sort Number:
40/093
Time in/Out:
01:23:14:00 / 01:24:05:00
Canister:
40/93
Film ID:
1061.18
Issue Date:
18/11/1940

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