Airborne Lifeboat 1944

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Item title reads - Airborne lifeboat.

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M/S as men wheel lifeboat to B.17 Flying Fortress, and attach it to the underneath of the plane. C/U pan up boat to front gun turret of Fortress L/S Fortress taking off for exercise. Slow motion M/S as they drop the...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44878
Sort Number:
44/101
Time in/Out:
01:32:04:00 / 01:33:30:00
Canister:
44/101
Film ID:
1370.19
Issue Date:
18/12/1944

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