Windmill Girls Adopt Sailors 1957

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Lee-on-the-Solent, Hampshire.

Members of the Fleet Air Arm Field Gun Crew demonstrate their prowess with a trapeze transporting gun components. Two Windmill Girls watch the display. The men are training for the Royal Naval Field Gun Tournament. The sailors have chosen Windmill Girls to be their...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Colour
Sound:
sound
Media URN:
1436
Sort Number:
CP 123
Time in/Out:
01:06:40:00 / 01:09:00:00
Canister:
CP 123
Film ID:
61.07
Issue Date:
10/04/1957

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