Japs Raid Port Darwin 1942

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Titles read: "JAPS RAID PORT DARWIN".

Port Darwin, Australia.

L/S of columns of black smoke stretching towards the sky after large oil storage tanks go up at Port Darwin as a result of Japanese bombs. Closer shots of the black and blazing clouds rising into the sky.

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
43999
Sort Number:
42/060
Time in/Out:
01:46:23:00 / 01:47:53:00
Canister:
42/60
Film ID:
1332.27
Issue Date:
27/07/1942

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