Royal Air Force Recruits Wanted 1938

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Titles read: "ROYAL AIR FORCE RECRUITS WANTED".

Location of events unknown - probably London.

Sir Kingsley Wood, the new Air Minister, sits at a desk and makes a speech encouraging men to join the RAF. He says during this year they need 31,000 men as pilots, air observers, airmen,...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
21699
Sort Number:
38/051
Time in/Out:
01:36:39:00 / 01:37:48:00
Canister:
38/51
Film ID:
1658.27
Issue Date:
27/06/1938

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