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Video showing G014 clip from Ron Gray's film.   This clip was filmed during a 4 Squadron Sylt detachment in the extremely hard winter during January 1955.   It begins with shots of the Sylt Officers' Mess in the snow and then shows Tony Pearce, Bill Blake and Bob Smith walking on the sea which was frozen solid as it was so cold.   Then there is a shot of Bob Smith with a camera and shows tha fishing boats frozen into the sea ice.   A shot follows that shows that Bill Blake was anything but sure-footed - similarly Tony Pearce.   After more shots of the boats, Ron Gray, Tony Pearce and
Bill Blake are seen returning to the Mess in their smart winter issue white half duffle coats.   These had to be quickly withdrawn as the officers' ladies stole them for thier own use!

There is no sound with this clip.   This clip runs for 1 min min 52 secs and takes approximately the following time to download during the first viewing at the following sample download rates:
56 Kbps (Typical dial-up telephone connection to the Internet): 13 min 9 secs;
512 Kbps (ADSL connection): 1 min 52 secs;
1 Mbps (ADSL connection): 28 secs;
2 Mbps (ADSL connection): 13 sec.

(Thanks to Ron Gray for original film.)
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