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Vichy Convoy Captured 1942
Description
Titles read: "VICHY CONVOY CAPTURED".
South Africa.
Various shots at a South African port, where we see Vichy French merchant ships that have been captured while carrying supplies to the Germans. Troops go aboard and the French are taken off for internment. Some of the captured French...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 43615
- Sort Number:
- 42/010
- Time in/Out:
- 01:32:06:00 / 01:33:25:00
- Canister:
- 42/10
- Film ID:
- 1316.19
- Issue Date:
- 02/02/1942
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