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Saipan - Base For The B-29's 1944
Description
Island of Saipan, Pacific Ocean.
Title reads: "Saipan: Base for the B-29's". A map of Pacific Ocean showing location of the island of Saipan - close to Philippines. The island was taken from the Japanese in summer 1944 and become US air base in autumn same year.
Various shots of the...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sanja
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 62255
- Sort Number:
- UN 0966 B
- Time in/Out:
- 01:25:36:00 / 01:28:49:00
- Canister:
- UN 966 B
- Film ID:
- 1999.08
- Issue Date:
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