Dam Busters Fly With Blue Steel 1963

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Item title reads - Dam Busters fly with blue steel.

617 squadron are first to be equipped with Blue Steel nuclear missiles. Scampton, Lincolnshire.

Various shots of a long line of Blue Steel nuclear missiles in hangar. M/S's as one is moved along by an overhead gantry. Various shots...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
54227
Sort Number:
63/015
Time in/Out:
01:37:37:00 / 01:39:15:00
Canister:
63/15
Film ID:
1750.14
Issue Date:
18/02/1963

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