American Ambulance Gift 1940

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Full title reads: "American Ambulance Gift".

Grosvenor Square, United States of America (USA).

GV Ext. American Embassy in Grosvenor Square.

VS of Joseph P Kennedy standing with an ambulance and its crew of three nurses. He is presenting the ambulance to the American Ambulance...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20972
Sort Number:
40/059
Time in/Out:
01:13:17:00 / 01:13:42:00
Canister:
40/59
Film ID:
1051.12
Issue Date:
22/07/1940

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