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Title:CHURCHILL VISITS AN RAF AIRFIELD, NORMANDY [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ACB 76
Other titles:
Summary:
Description: Air Vice Marshal Broadhurst's Storch aircraft arrives, lands and taxies; Winston Churchill leaves Storch and is met by Wing Commander Maurice; he is helped up onto a platform, and addresses the airfield staff (Storch aircraft in background); various shots of crowd listening to Churchill (some seem to be more interested in the camera...); Churchill raises his peaked cap, in thanks for the staff's 'three cheers', he is escorted to a jeep by Broadhurst and Maurice, and is driven away (smoking a cigar); Churchill gets into the Storch, and raises his hat to the farewell party.
Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company)
Challis, Christopher George (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Broadhurst, Harry (person)
Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person)
Maurice (Wing Commander) (person)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, German - light military: Fieseler Fi-156 Storch & [captured & [impressed] (object name)
delegations, British national - political: Churchill visits RAF in Normandy (object name)
Normandy, France (geography)
camera (concept)