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Object Details

Category
Sound
Related period
1945-1989 (production), Second World War (content), Second World War (association)
Creator
IWM (Production company)
Wood, Conrad (recorder)
Clark, Victor Cecil Froggatt (interviewee/speaker)
Production date
1986-01-21
Dimensions

whole: Duration 60, Number Of Items 2

Catalogue number
9193

Object associations

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