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Our 'mosquito' Navy 1940
Description
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...
Data
- 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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