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D-Day Fliers Decorated 1944
Description
Item title reads - D-Day fliers decorated.
Location of events unknown.
M/S of Mrs A. V. Alexander, wife of the First Lord of the Admiralty with Wing Commander Rayner. C/U of two carrier pigeons, Gustav and Paddy, who flew on D-Day and are to receive the Dickin medal for Gallantry...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Emma
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 44820
- Sort Number:
- 44/095
- Time in/Out:
- 01:48:03:00 / 01:50:02:00
- Canister:
- 44/95
- Film ID:
- 1368.22
- Issue Date:
- 27/11/1944
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