British Navy Rescues Hell Ship Prisoners… 1940

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Full title reads: "British Navy Rescues Hell Ship Prisoners".

England.

MS pan with the Destroyer HMS Cossack arriving in harbour in England, her decks are crowded with survivors from the German prison ship Altmark which held the prisoners taken by the Graf Spee when she sunk allied...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20621
Sort Number:
40/016
Time in/Out:
01:53:12:00 / 01:55:14:00
Canister:
40/16
Film ID:
1035.47
Issue Date:
22/02/1940

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