Summary

Paramount cameraman films German planes dive-bombing British convoy ships in English channel

Source Sherman Grinberg
Newsreel Paramount
Negative # 9787
Clip SR003391_04_01.mov
Date 7/1/1940
Title Paramount cameraman films German planes dive-bombing British convoy ships in English channel
Description Paramount cameraman James Gammell, in foxhole, points camera toward sky / German dive bombers in air, anti-aircraft fire explodes around them / bombs explode around ships on the English Channel / bomber dives / VS bomb explode around ships / British fighter plane in pursuit of Nazi bombers / bombers exhaust trails / ship is hit by bomb / planes in air, pan down to bombs exploding in Channel / planes in air / German plane crashes in Channel / more shots of battle / policeman looks at debris of plane that crashed on row house residential street / CU debris / VS men examine Nazi plane that crashed in field and has swastika on tailfin / VS people look at debris in road / Note: exact day not known
Country United Kingdom

Keywords

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World War II
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