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Feathered Messengers 1942
Description
Titles read: "FEATHERED MESSENGERS".
Middle East.
Various shots at a desert base of the Middle East Pigeon Service, where we see baskets of pigeons being loaded onto a land rover. The baskets are unloaded at a remote patrol outpost.
The outpost has recently received information...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 44457
- Sort Number:
- 42/105
- Time in/Out:
- 01:03:08:00 / 01:04:27:00
- Canister:
- 42/105
- Film ID:
- 1348.04
- Issue Date:
- 31/12/1942
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