Airmen 1914-1918

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Description

Airmen.

Location of events unknown.

Very brief: pan on group of British airmen posing in a row in front of an aeroplane (old biplane type). Around this time the RAF was created; and the airmen got their own organisation.

Pilots, Aviation; World War One.

Data

Cataloguer:
Cheri
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
73450
Sort Number:
ON 154 C
Time in/Out:
01:21:06:00 / 01:21:41:00
Canister:
ON 154 C
Film ID:
1926.18
Issue Date:
1914 - 1918

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Newsreels
Categories
War & Revolution War & Revolution
WorkSpaces
WWI Aviation WATT WW1 Aerial warfare

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