Second BEF Home Again 1940

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Full title reads: "Second BEF Home Again".

VS of men of the second B.E.F. (British Expeditionary Force) marching through streets, also shots of armoured and troop-carrying vehicles moving through streets of France en route for evacuation. Cut aways to planes flying above.

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20911
Sort Number:
40/051
Time in/Out:
01:04:26:00 / 01:07:42:00
Canister:
40/51
Film ID:
1049.05
Issue Date:
24/06/1940

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