Our 'mosquito' Navy 1940

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Full title reads: "Our 'Mosquito' Navy".

River Thames.

VS Volunteer crews being briefed and trying out the light machine guns on board small motor boats taken over from private pleasure use for defence duties along rivers and inland waterways.

VS. of a flotilla of the small...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
21034
Sort Number:
40/065
Time in/Out:
01:17:47:00 / 01:18:26:00
Canister:
40/65
Film ID:
1053.20
Issue Date:
12/08/1940

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