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World’s Greatest Bomber Pilot Gets VC

Date released

14 Sep 1944

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

1478

NoS ID

147931

Story no

2 / 5

Wing-Commander Cheshire VC.

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Date with History, A: Hiroshima (1965 Video)

aka: Date with History, A

Subject

History; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (81 minutes)

Follows the history of the war in the Pacific, tracing the American successes at Midway, the Solomons, the Gilberts, and the Marianas Islands, leading up to the decision to use the atomic bomb. Details the 6...

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Leonard Cheshire foundation (1980)

Genre

News report; Interview; Special

Douglas Cameron reports on the role of the Leonard Cheshire Foundation providing support to and housing disabled people. The homes and the running of the homes is described. Speaking are: Christopher...

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Nagasaki: the mission that changed my life (1984)

A documentary featuring an interview with British pilot captain G. Leonard Cheshire, about the mission to drop the atomic bomb over the port of Nagasaki, in Japan, on the day 9 of August 1945.

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Memorial pens from scrapped missiles (1991)

Genre

Interview

Leonard Cheshire on metal from scrapped missiles from Russia (SS20) and the USA (Pershing) being fused together to make remembrance pens known as World Memorial Pens. The proceeds will go to his memorial...

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Atomic bombs 40th anniversary (1985)

Genre

Interview

Interview with Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, official British observer to the American atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 remembering what he saw and why the decision to use the bombs was...

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1991 honours list (1991)

Genre

Interview; News report

Report on the 1991 honours list. Includes WW2 RAF veteran Leonard Cheshire on being given a life peerage; Tory MP Teddy Taylor on his knighthood; interviews with others receiving honours England Rugby Coach...

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Dambusters 40th anniversary (1983)

Genre

News report; Interview; Music

Paul Maurice reports on flyovers by the Royal Air Force (heard) to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the so-called Dambusters raid by the RAF 617 Squadron, on the industrial Ruhr region of Germany...

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Atomic bombs 40th anniversary (1985)

Genre

Documentary; Interview; Special

Series of clips (some archival) used for Dave Loyn’s programme on the atomic bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 (40 years ago) entitled The Force of the Sun. Contributors...

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Baby Elephant

Date released

21 Aug 1977

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2516

NoS ID

031021

Story no

3 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Baby Elephant. DESCRIPTION: A new arrival at Chester Zoo, weighing in at 250 pounds, is a baby elephant called ‘Jubilee’. It is a rare event for an elephant to be born in captivity....

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