Full title reads: "U-BOAT KILLER".
Long Island Sound.
Various shots of a Sikorsky XR-4 helicopter on a converted merchant ship "Bunker Hill" demonstrating it can land and take off from a special flight deck on the ship. The idea is to load the helicopter with a depth charge and hover over U-boat targets and score a more direct hit.
(Mute & Track Negs.)
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Description
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Data
- Archive
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 14/06/1943
- Sound:
- sound
- Media URN:
- 38088
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Film ID:
- 1085.18
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration
- 00:00:40:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:32:34:00 / 01:33:14:00
- Canister:
- 43/47
- Sort Number:
- 43/047
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jamied says
The ship is the merchant tanker "Bunker Hill".
The location is Long Island Sound.
The helicopter is the Sikorsky XR-4. See pages 1 and 4 of the attached for further details.......
www.sikorskyarchives.com/newsindex/News%
20Mar 00 R-4.pdf
British Pathé says
Thanks.