Just Like Mother 1942

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Titles read: "JUST LIKE MOTHER".

Somewhere in Britain.

WAAFs (Women's Auxiliary Air Force) wearing white overalls and headscarves march about a parade ground. We then see them in a classroom, where a man at a blackboard instructs them on carving meat. The WAAFs have their hands inspected...

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Data

Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
43936
Sort Number:
42/050
Time in/Out:
01:50:50:00 / 01:52:05:00
Canister:
42/50
Film ID:
1330.27
Issue Date:
22/06/1942

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