MUSTARD GAS ATTACK CARRIED OUT ON BROOK ISLAND, AUSTRALIA [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: MUSTARD GAS ATTACK CARRIED OUT ON BROOK ISLAND, AUSTRALIA [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: DED 16
  • Other titles: PORTON DOWN TRIALS NON-NITRATE COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary:
  • Description: 0-400 A. Stores handling: LCMs engaged on trial approaching base. Trials personnel disembarking: Parade of entire trials personnel. Sampling equipment being emplaced. Outline map of Brook Island and location of sampling points. Foxholes: trials animals (goats) disembarked. Goats tethered at strategic sampling points. 400-800 B. Trials planning team: Briefing personnel. Air view of island. Aircraft attacking with mustard over island. Sampling points indicated on map. Personnel wearing respirators approaching island after aircraft attack. Sampling etc. Goats after attack showing effects of exposure to mustard. Sampling party. Samples loaded on LCMs for subsequent analysis at base. 800-978 C. Troops wearing respirators in various phases of activity including combat exercise after island had been contaminated.
  • Alternative Title: PORTON DOWN TRIALS NON-NITRATE COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: DED 16
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944
  • Production Country: Australia
  • Production Details: Australian Field Experimental Station (Production sponsor)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 3 Footage: 978 ft
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    DED 16

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