Home Front - Blitz. Reel 4. 1940

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Untitled- Bomb damage. Suburbs.
Showing dramatic damage to homes in the suburbs, families pick through the ruins of their destroyed homes.
Untitled- Bomb damage in open area.
Many firemen and home guard dig trenches and retrieve bodies from what looks like a park area, it may have been an...

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Cataloguer:
Mike
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
85446
Sort Number:
DOCS
Time in/Out:
01:33:28:00 / 01:38:21:00
Canister:
DOCS
Film ID:
2977.05
Issue Date:
02/12/1940

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