Title:MOSQUITOS OF 333 (NORWEGIAN) SQUADRON [Main Title]
Film Number:RMY 82
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Summary: Ground and aerial footage of No 333 Norwegian Squadron of RAF Coastal Command at Leuchars.
Description: G-AGGC (BOAC Mosquito on Stockholm-Leuchars route) takes off. PR IV Mosquito lands. DZ 754 refuelled from bowser. "Danger - Guns loaded" sign. Airman inspects Mosquito propeller blade. Refuelling. Pilot and observer approach and enter Mosquito and start up engines. Spitfire in background. Airmen wash clothes in bucket. Mosquito taxies past. Two Beaufighters in background. Crew out of Mosquito. Mosquito serviced and refuelled. Cockpit view over coast, and banking. Servicing Mosquitos. Starting engines. Naval crew (Commander Lanbrechts ?) into DZ 744, which taxies out. Taxiing out of focus. Windsock. Ground shot of Mosquito in flight. Wheeling DZ 754 into hangar. A/A shot of DZ 744, overexposed. Observer's view of cockpit over pilot's shoulder. Aerial view of town (summery). Cockpit view of landing. Man paints Norwegian flag on nose of DZ 754. Take-off, out of focus.
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Colour:B&W
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Object_Number:RMY 82
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1943-05
Production Country: GB
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Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force, Sqdn, 333 (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, Norwegian personnel (regiment/service)
British Overseas Airways Corporation (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Bristol Beaufighter (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: De Havilland Mosquito (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: Supermarine Spitfire (object name)
aircraft, British - light civilian: De Havilland Mosquito (object name)
operations, British air - maintenance (object name)
operations, British air - routine (object name)
GB, Scotland & Leuchars, Fife <RAF Station> (geography)
