Title:FLEET COMBAT CAMERA TEAM (FCCT) TAPE 13 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 142
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2003 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Minister of State for the Armed Forces Adam Ingram MP and Shadow Secretary of State for Defence Nicholas Soames MP visit Basra Air Station.
Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:01:05 Adam Ingram inspects a WMIK Land Rover and talks to serving soldiers at Basra Air Station. He sits in the passenger seat of a WMIK and talks to the crews. Later, Nicholas Soames also talks to WMIK crews.
00:06:55 The two parliamentary guests visit soldiers inside the headquarters; they talk to personnel including administrative and medical staff.
00:10:49 On the tarmac at Basra, Adam Ingram and Nicholas Soames meets fire crews and RAF personnel.
00:16:10 RAF Regiment Arabic language lessons; Adam Ingram talks to students and teacher, and tries a few words of Arabic himself.
00:20:44 Inspection of RAF and Army helicopters (Chinook, Puma, Gazelle, Lynx).
END 00:27:28
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2003 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 142
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2003-12-19
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Fleet Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Ingram, Adam Paterson (person)
Soames, Nicholas (person)
British Army (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, RAF Regiment (regiment/service)
Keywords: Basra International Airport, Basra, Iraq (geography)
Operation Telic, Iraq War 2003-2009 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Iraq post-2003 (theme)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: None
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: Mini-DV
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 63; Running time: 27 mins
BFV 118 (ARABIC LANGUAGE CLASS AND VISIT BY MINISTER OF STATE FOR THE ARMED FORCES ADAM INGRAM MP [Allocated Title])
BFV 150 (FLEET COMBAT CAMERA TEAM (FCCT) TAPE 21 [Allocated Title])