Title:AIR COURIER SERVICE IN ACTION DURING FALLEX 1960, VILLACOUBLAY AIRFIELD, FRANCE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:NAT 1716
Other titles:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:Scenes of the air courier service, set up between SHAPE headquarters and the major subordinate commands of Allied Command Europe during Exercise Fallex 1960. At Villacoublay Airfield, France (the daily delivery and dispatch point for the service), a Royal Air Force Transport Command aircraft arrives and the pilot delivers papers to SMS man, who signs log and goes to his truck. At SHAPE ATAG Squadron (where transport plane KON-TIKI is seen), a helicopter pilot receives messages from the SMS man, who in turn signs for message sacks and parcels from the pilot. He puts the mail into his truck as the helicopter takes off. SHAPE helicopter field: SMS man receives message sacks from pilot and signs for them. The helicopter takes off.
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Alternative Title:SHAPE FILM LIBRARY [Allocated Series Title]