[Fort Dorset].

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Reference
147255
Media type
Audio
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Rights Information
Reference
147255
Media type
Audio
Categories
Historical radio programs
Nonfiction radio programs
Radio programs
Radio talk shows
Sound recordings
Duration
00:31:37
Credits
RNZ Collection
New Zealand Broadcasting Service (estab. 1946, closed 1962)
Hickling, Harold
Maxwell-Fyfe, David, 1900-1967

A compilation of three audio cuts.
1. Unknown male speaker talks about the outbreak of World War Two: being asked to report for duty on September 3, 1939 at Fort Dorset. He gives the history of this embankment located in Wellington.

2. Vice Admiral Harold Hickling, who helped build a Mulberry harbour, gives a full description of its building and its use of the prefabricated harbours transported to France to facilitate landing of Allied forces during World War II duirng the invasion of Normandy.

3. British judge, Lord Kilmuir (Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe), talks about his job during a visit to New Zealand.