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Description: Typhoons - with D-Day markings - take off; film of their rockets, fuel tanks and bombs; an airman places a spare long-range fuel tank near a Typhoon; fuel tanks are fitted to Typhoons, and filled; detailed sheets of fitting and filling; a Typhoon takes off, and others land; a Dakota is shown on the airfield; an Oxford comes in to land.
Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company)
Hodges, Ken (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - light military: Airspeed Oxford (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: Hawker Typhoon [D-Day markings] (object name)
aircraft, United States - transport: Douglas C-47 Dakota (object name)
equipment, British air - propulsion: long-range fuel tank (object name)
operations, British air - preparation: Hawker Typhoon (object name)
GB, England & Thorney Island, Hants <RAF Station> (geography)