Nazi Bombers Beaten Off 1940

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Full title reads: "Nazi Bombers Beaten Off".

Dover, Kent.

VS. good shots of a convoy of British merchant ships steaming through the Straits of Dover. German five bombers attack the ships and are engaged with gunfire from shore batteries and from the destroyer escort. Spitfires amongst...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20992
Sort Number:
40/061
Time in/Out:
01:34:46:00 / 01:35:51:00
Canister:
40/61
Film ID:
1051.32
Issue Date:
29/07/1940

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