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Facing Danger With Men Of The Minesweeping… 1940
Description
Full title reads: "Facing Danger with Men of the Minesweeping Flotilla".
LS and MS Minesweeper, converted fishing boat, at sea.
Various very good shots of minesweepers at sea, shot from one of the ships, showing men at work lowering and dragging the booms through the sea by day and...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Mark
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 20515
- Sort Number:
- 40/004
- Time in/Out:
- 01:48:59:00 / 01:50:58:00
- Canister:
- 40/4
- Film ID:
- 1031.33
- Issue Date:
- 11/01/1940
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