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A Short Sunderland flying boat of RAF Coastal Command takes off from the coast at Calshot, England, ahead of Exercise Mariner, a NATO naval exercise conducted in 1953. You can find more footage of the exercise on our film collections website: https://bit.ly/3AC6O2g © NATO (IWM, NAT 1398) | Imperial War Museum London
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