Paratroops Over Tunisia 1942

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Titles read: "PARATROOPS OVER TUNISIA".

North Africa.

General view of Dakota aircraft waiting at Maison Blanche Airfield at Algiers. British paratroops are briefed and then check their equipment and climb aboard the aircraft. M/S from a Dakota taking off showing other planes waiting...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44353
Sort Number:
42/097
Time in/Out:
01:46:29:00 / 01:47:28:00
Canister:
42/97
Film ID:
1344.23
Issue Date:
03/12/1942

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