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Indian to Swim English Channel

Date released

4 Sep 1930

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

16

NoS ID

137212

Story no

3 / 9

Extras

1 commentary sheet

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Otto Seal Doublecrosses the Channel

Date released

13 Oct 1949

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

49/82

NoS ID

103133

Story no

3 / 4

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

The silliest stunt of the year. A Californian seal is towed across the Channel. Why? For publicity of course!

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Gazette Special - Shells Across the Channel

Date released

26 Aug 1940

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

40/69

NoS ID

098202

Story no

5 / 5

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Allied merchant ships steaming through the Channel are shelled from German guns on the French coast. Destroyer escorts steam amongst the merchant ships laying a smoke screen.

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Operation Pluto

Date released

24 May 1945

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

45/42

NoS ID

100710

Story no

1 / 2

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

The construction and laying of submarine petrol pipeline under the English Channel which fed fuel through from England to Germany.

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Channel Conquered by a Girl!

Date released

31 Aug 1933

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

328

NoS ID

139796

Story no

8 / 8

Extras

1 commentary sheet

Sunny Lowry, 23 year old Manchester girl, first to swim the English Channel since 1930.

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Bostons over France

Date released

23 Aug 1943

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

43/67

NoS ID

100072

Story no

5 / 5

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Bostons head out across the English Channel, their destination Abbeville aerodrome. As the bombs fall and explode ground waves can be seen. Further down the coast another formation of Bostons is over the...

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Passing of a Hero

Date released

7 May 1942

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

42/37

NoS ID

099414

Story no

2 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Lieutenant Commander Esmonde, leader of the heroic attack by Swordfish aircraft on the escaping "Gneisenau" and "Scharnhorst" in the English Channel, is the first VC of this war to be buried in English soil.

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Raid on Paris

Date released

7 Oct 1943

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

43/80

NoS ID

100123

Story no

4 / 5

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Squadrons of RAF (Royal Air Force) Bostons of the Free French Air Force head out over the English Channel towards their target which a power station outside Paris. The bombs are seen falling onto a power...

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Commandos Do It Again

Date released

11 Jun 1942

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

42/47

NoS ID

099477

Story no

6 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Commandos on their way back across the Channel from a raid on the Boulogne-Le Touquet area. This was the fourth British raid against the occupied French coast in three months.

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Royal Air Force Up and at ‘Em

Date released

15 Aug 1940

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

40/66

NoS ID

098184

Story no

7 / 7

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

RAF fighters in action protecting a Channel convoy from air attack. Fighter pilots scrambling and taking off in Spitfires and Hurricanes, and good air to air shots of these aircraft.

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