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Object details

Category
Sound
Related period
1945-1989 (production), Interwar (content), Interwar (association)
Creator
IWM (Production company)
PMC (recorder)
Doyle, Robert Andrew (interviewee/speaker)
Production date
1976
Dimensions

whole: Duration 120, Number Of Items 4

Catalogue number
806

Object associations

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