Crash Pilot Safe And Sound 1959

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Title reads: "Crash pilot safe and sound".

Stranraer, Scotland.

Interior hospital room: Mrs. Squier sitting at bedside of her husband, pilot Johhnie Squier, in the Garrick Hospital, Stranraer. Squier crashed his English Electric P.1 Lightning fighter plane in sea.

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Data

Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
50740
Sort Number:
59/081
Time in/Out:
01:43:27:00 / 01:44:31:00
Canister:
59/81
Film ID:
1595.29
Issue Date:
08/10/1959

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