The Flying Bomb 1944

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Item title reads - The flying bomb.

South East England.

M/S's of Winston Churchill visiting antiaircraft gun sites, he is in uniform of Colonel of Royal Sussex Regiment. M/S of his wife Clementine. Good M/S of Churchill's daughter Mary stood with her father who is sat down smoking...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
44724
Sort Number:
44/054
Time in/Out:
01:25:30:00 / 01:27:07:00
Canister:
44/54
Film ID:
1362.07
Issue Date:
06/07/1944

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0:010:020:030:04

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