Artillery Barrage Exercises 1941

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Title reads: "Artillery Barrage Exercises".

Location of events unknown (narrator describes it secretively as "somewhere in England".

Full scale exercises in attack on army training grounds using live ammunition.

Various shots of troops, guns and vehicles advancing across...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
37758
Sort Number:
41/008
Time in/Out:
01:52:00:00 / 01:54:12:00
Canister:
41/8
Film ID:
1067.40
Issue Date:
27/01/1941

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