Title:EXERCISE MEDFLEX DRAGON, 11 APRIL TO 20 APRIL 1956 - REEL 1 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:NAT 1527
Other titles:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:A selection of scenes from the NATO exercise MEDFLEX DRAGON, off Malta. General Gruenther's aircraft arrives at Malta; the General and Admiral Lemonnier get out and are greeted by Air Marshal G E Nicholetts. They inspect RAF honour guard then transfer by small boat to HMS Surprise, where they inspect Royal Marine honour guard. General Gruenther with senior naval officers, including Admiral Guy Grantham and Admiral Zepos. HMS Surprise casts off and moves into position off the Maltese coast. Small patrol boats sail past. From the bridge of Surprise, General Gruenther reviews the fleet and watches flypast by various aircraft, including French torpedo bombers and Neptunes, four British Avro Shackletons and four Italian Hawker Typhoons fly overhead. British sailors load 50mm Oerlikon guns; HMS Surprise fires in salute. General Gruenther and other officers salute as ships of the NATO fleet sail past (RFA Fort Duquesne and the French aircraft carrier Arromanches among them).
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Alternative Title:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
