RAF Fighters In Close Up 1940

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Title missing: "RAF Fighters In Close Up".

Good shots of Royal Air Force fighter pilots scrambling, they run to their aircraft with several shots of Spitfires and Hurricanes taking off and in flight.

VS Good shots of RAF fighters flying in formation into attack, good air to air CUs...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
40227
Sort Number:
40/081
Time in/Out:
01:03:46:00 / 01:05:12:00
Canister:
40/81
Film ID:
1164.06
Issue Date:
07/10/1940

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