Aldershot - Atomic Rehearsal For Doctors 1955

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Aldershot.

GV. Medical officers lined up. SV. Major General Campbell and Major General Murphy. SCU. Major General Bramwell-Davis, Chief of staff Southern Command. GV. Simulated atomic bomb explosion. SV. Cook house on fire with cooks running out of hut. SV. Hut burning. CU. Injured soldier...

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
30614
Sort Number:
55/031
Time in/Out:
01:34:48:00 / 01:36:20:00
Canister:
55/31
Film ID:
515.11
Issue Date:
18/04/1955

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