Our Life Line Across The Atlantic AKA Lifeline 1941

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Title reads: "Our lifeline across the Atlantic.

Convoy of cargo ships escorted across Atlantic Ocean to Gibraltar.

L/S of an aircraft carrier (either the Nairana or Vindex as the carrier is one of the ships converted from a merchant vessel) pan to a merchant ship which is lying astern...

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
38777
Sort Number:
41/035
Time in/Out:
01:35:09:00 / 01:36:15:00
Canister:
41/35
Film ID:
1113.32
Issue Date:
01/05/1941

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