RAF Plane Loses Its Way! 1940

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Full title reads: "RAF Plane Loses Its Way!"

France

VS including CUs of crew, of the pilot and crew of a Royal Air Force Whitley bomber climbing from their plane on an airfield in France, the plane previously landed behind the German lines by mistake.

Data

Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20662
Sort Number:
40/025
Time in/Out:
01:41:37:00 / 01:42:05:00
Canister:
40/25
Film ID:
1039.37
Issue Date:
25/03/1940

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