Still Smiling! - Jim Daley 1940

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Full title reads: "Still Smiling! - Jim Daley, Australian Seaman, relates his experiences - ".

Australia.

MS and CU of Australian seaman Jim Daley talking about how he was in merchant ship sunk by the Graf Spee and was rescued from the Altmark by the Navy, he joined a second ship which...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
21161
Sort Number:
40/082
Time in/Out:
01:40:43:00 / 01:41:49:00
Canister:
40/82
Film ID:
1057.37
Issue Date:
10/10/1940

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