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Full titles read: "WAR EPIC OF THE AIR"
M/S Pilot at controls of RAF (NOTE: this part of the item is missing - sound only) coastal command aircraft. M/S and C/U Captain of sunken boat thanking RAF (Royal Air Force) pilots who saved him after his ship was torpedoed. (Natural sound). C/U Pilot of rescue aircraft.
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Description
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Data
- Archive
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 28/09/1939
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 20358
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Film ID:
- 1023.23
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration
- 00:01:26:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:19:40:00 / 01:21:06:00
- Canister:
- 39/76
- Sort Number:
- 39/076
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Appears in...
- Categories
- War & Revolution
- WorkSpaces
- WWII WW2: RAF
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jamied says
"Captain of sunken boat" - that's Joseph Schofield, and his boat was named Kensington Court.
The Kensington Court was sunk by U-boat U-32 on 18 September 1939.
The two RAF men seen here are the pilots of the two Sunderland flying-boat that flew to the crew's rescue, namely Flt Lt Thurston M.W. Smith and Flt Lt John Barrett.
Attached is a magazine article of the era about this very story......
www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/vie
w/1939/1939-1- - 0861.html