UN Chiefs See Para-Raid Trial 1951

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Watchfield, Berkshire.

LV. Towards, paratroopers moving beneath nose of Hastings transport aircraft. SV. Paratroopers walking up steps and into Hastings. SV. & SCU. Guns being towed into C-82 aircraft, they are to be dropped by parachutes. SV. Paratechnician slung in bomb bay of Halifax. LV....

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Cataloguer:
Sanja
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
47188
Sort Number:
51/021
Time in/Out:
01:00:21:00 / 01:02:00:00
Canister:
51/21
Film ID:
1443.01
Issue Date:
12/03/1951

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