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Army Of Today's Ok! AKA New Weapons For… 1953
Description
Hythe, Kent. New weapons for the British army are put on show.
SCU. Soldier holding new rocket launcher. SV. soldier holding rocket. SV. Soldier loading rocket into launcher. CU. Soldier looking through optical sight of launcher. SV. Launcher fired CU. Patchet machine carbine magazine taken...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Mark
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 28088
- Sort Number:
- 53/014
- Time in/Out:
- 01:47:49:00 / 01:48:59:00
- Canister:
- 53/14
- Film ID:
- 60.22
- Issue Date:
- 02/03/1953
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