• Short Summary

    A.T.S. girls operate range finding and tracking equipment at emplacements in London.

  • Description

    Item title reads - A.T.S. girls with the guns.

    London.

    M/S of A.T.S. (Auxiliary Territorial Service) girls manning range finding and tracking equipment in concrete emplacements. Various shots as they operate the equipment and call out positions, they can use all equipment except the guns. Various shots of Secretary of State for War, Captain Margesson, inspecting them. The guns are fired. M/S as Margesson makes a speech about the importance of this work which leaves men to do work "that only men alone can do".

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  • Data

    Film ID:
    1133.28
    Media URN:
    39445
    Group:
    Pathe newsreels
    Archive:
    British Pathé
    Issue Date:
    20/10/1941
    Sound:
    Sound
    HD Format:
    Available on request
    Stock:
    Black & White
    Duration:
    00:01:12:00
    Time in/Out:
    01:39:56:00 / 01:41:08:00
    Canister:
    41/84

Comments (1)

  1. MikeAsh says

    Another interesting example of discourse around 'girls' operating anti-aircraft batteries as WW2 progressed in Britain.

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