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Allies blast Truk
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The largest Japanese Naval base outside of Japan is attacked by carrier aircraft from Admiral Mitscher's TF-58. The attack was co-ordinated with General MacArthur's land operations in New Guinea. Scen...F00802
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All must serve says John Curtin (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 10)
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Prime Minister John Curtin opens 35 million pound loan.F00333
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All quiet on the Hills of Jesus
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Wrecked enemy vehicles in desert near railway station at Tel El Eisa. Staged shots of Australian troops in shallow trench under fire from enemy tank.F01226
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Alone (World at war)
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Maker: Thames Television International Ltd
Rallied by Churchill, Britain fights on after Dunkirk. The RAF wins the Battle of Britain. The Nazis overun Yugoslavia, Greece and Crete.F10222-04
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Ambulance presentation RAAF, Melbourne
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Maker: Unknown
Scenes 1 to 5: Field Ambulances presented to the British Red Cross by the Australian Red Cross Society. Scenes 6 to 11: Mr Peter Mallach and wife, Mr Casey of Dried Fruit Board representing the people...F01115
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Ambulance train Rocky Creek
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
Ambulance train approaching Rocky Creek station. Patients transfer from the train to waiting ambulance. Ambulance drives off down station yard.F07131
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1. America comes to Australia 2. Pearl Harbour bombed 3. Allies prepared to fight back from their last strongholds in the Western Pacific. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 15)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Vol. 13 No. 15 Fox Movietone News 1. (1 min 48 sec) Arrival of United States troops in Australia. 2. (2 min 39 sec) Scenes of the aftermath of the Japanese attack on the United States Pa...F00338
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America goes to war in the Pacific (Crusade in the Pacific part 4)
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Maker: March of Time Television
A United States television documentary using historic combat and newsreel footage. Covers the Japanese conquests in the Malaya, Hong Kong and the Netherland East Indies in early 1942. Shows Japanese f...F04958
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American airmen rescued
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
American airman rescued with parachute from sea. Rescue craft races across to aircraft to rescue crew from coral reef.F01266
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American Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew in Tokyo
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Tokyo, Japan. American Ambassador, Joseph Clarke Grew, makes a statement on Japanese - American relations and American friendship with Japan dating back to Commodore Perry. This item was photographed ...F00989
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American Army mules
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Hundreds of Pack Mules have been brought to New Guinea for pack duties. These animals have not been tried out in New Guinea, but so far have done wonderful work with the British and American Armies in...F07100
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American Army nurses (Darwin series, 8)
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
American army nurses who made a last minute escape from Corregidor are seen in Darwin area during short break in their trip south.F01183
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American forces liberate South Korea
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Maker: Driver, Roy
Australian troops captured at Singapore in 1942 and liberated in Korea by Allied forces after Japanese capitulation. Film commences with aerial shots of Korean landscape, moves to a panning shot of f...F01244
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American Independence Day parade and march past, Tokyo
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Maker: Military History Section, BCOF
Independence Day was celebrated by the Americans in remembrance of the signing of the US Declaration of Independence. This year's celebration was joined by the men of BCOF as freedom loving peoples of...F07494
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American Independence Day parade, Hiro
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Maker: Cuthbert, Allan George
Independence Day was celebrated by the Americans in remembrance of the signing of the US Declaration of Independence. This year the celebrations were joined by the men of BCOF as freedom loving people...F07493
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American's bush chapel
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
The Americans have built themselves a chapel in the woods. They call it the Jungle Chapel, but Father Anthony Carrol calls it the Cathedral In The Palms. The men built it in one week but found that it...F01776
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Americans (Darwin series, 11)
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Artillery practice by the 147th United States Field Artillery South Dakota National Guard. American NCO's operate range finders and artillery plot table. American officers watching shoot; shell explod...F01186
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Americans farewell BCOF, Tokyo
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Maker: Unknown
General Sir H C H Robertson is honoured by US Commander General Mark Clark. Opening ceremony at Yokohama Cemetery.F10270
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Americans land on Trobriand Island
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
A general coverage of American troops embarking in Landing Craft Infantry (LCI), Landing Craft Tank (LCT) and Landing Craft Mechanised (LCM) at Milne Bay, the convoy at sea and the landing at Trobrian...F01261
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Americans prepare to land at Wakde Island
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Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
An American convoy of landing of craft left Aitape, New Guinea, escorted by Australian and American warships for a landing on Wakde. This was accomplised by two separate operations; first a landing on...F01268
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1. Americans raid Tokyo in B25 Mitchell Bombers from USS "Hornet" 2. AIF jungle training. (News From Home No. 40)
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1. (4 min 18 sec) Tokyo raid by carrier borne Mitchell Bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet on 18 April 1942 led by Major General Doolittle. Admiral Halsey and General Henry H. Arnold also app...F00735
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1. Americans train under MacArthur's eye. 2. Army wins interservices boxing tournament. (Cinesound News No. 573)
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1. (2 min 17 sec) General Douglas MacArthur inspects Americans training in bayonet fighting and unarmed combat 2. (1 min 50 sec) Plenty of action in bouts between Allied servicemen.F00599
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American Stuart light tank (Recognition of AFVs)
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Maker: British Movietone News
A mititary training film produced by Movietone News for the Director of Army Kinematography. This film gives a general description of the Light Tank M3 (British designation General Stuart ), armament ...F05048
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American volunteer group in Rangoon, Burma
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Maker: Unknown
The 1st American Volunteer Group (AVG), know as 'The Flying Tigers', in Rangoon, Burma. Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk aircraft arming, American pilots practice throwing football, scramble to aircraft, taxi o...F00963
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America strikes at the heart of Japan (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 19)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Japanese houses, palaces, crowds, Emperor, US bombers, Japanese tank burning.F00342
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Ammunition dump at Sables-sur-Sarthe (Ops 153)
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Maker: RAF Film Unit
RAF Bomber Command Operational Film No. 153 of night attack on an ammunition dump at Sable-sur-Sarthe, German occupied France, by Lancasters and Mosquitoes of 5 Group. The dump was successfully destro...F02607
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Amphibious training
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Maker: Barrett, Reginald Mervyn (Reg) Kinna, Darrell
Troops of the 2/48th Australian Infantry Battalion training with RAN personnel at Trinity Beach, Cairns.F07123
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Amphibious training 16 Brigade
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
The Australian 16th Brigade amphibious training at Yorkey's Knob Beach or Trinity Bay Beach Cairns, North Queensland 24 August 1943. American soldier keeps watch with 50. Calibre Browning heavy machin...F07046
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1939 and All That!
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Maker: Poppleton, James
An amateur filmmaker's perspective of WW2 from the home front, incorporating newspaper headlines from 1939 to war's end; shots of Melbourne neighbourhoods and communities engaged war time activities s...F04905
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An emphasis on training: an interview with Major-General T.F. Cape, CB, CBE, DSO. (In retrospect)
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Maker: Training Technology Centre Australian Army
In the video interview with Major General T.F. Cape, CB, CBE, DSO the emphasis is on training; prior to, during and post World War Two. The interview follows the path of his career upto and including ...F04840
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A new Germany (World at war)
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Maker: Thames Television International Ltd
The rise of Hitler and the origins of the war.F10222-01
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ANGAU and Red Cross activities: a trip to Koil Island
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Maker: Cartledge, Ronald Selby
A party of nursing sisters, an Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit medical officer and a Red Cross representative leave Wewak by two launches for Koil Island some 40 miles offshore. On arrival a...F07381
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ANGAU rehabilitation Bougainville
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Maker: Unknown
From Australian New Guinea Adminstrative Unit War Diaries and other records it is assumed that the film covers the general rehabilitation of Bougainvillean people as territory previously held by the J...F01247
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Angels of war
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Maker: Pike, Andrew
In January 1942 Papua New Guinea became the battle ground for nearly 2 million foreign soldiers. This film documents the experiences of Papua New Guinea's indigenous population during this campaign. S...F10262
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Anniversary parade BCOF Kure, Japan 1948
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Maker: Military History Section, BCOF
Today, BCOF's 2nd anniversary, 2,300 officers, men and members of the Women's Services paraded in Anzac Park and were reviewed by the Acting Commander in Chief Air Vice Marshal C A Bouchier CB CBE DFC...F07482
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Anson I
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Maker: Analysis Films Ltd
A British military training film on aircraft recognition produced by Analysis Films Ltd. This film shows the identification features of the Avro Anson I an advanced training monoplane.F05018
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Anti-aircraft ammunition rockets introduction
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Maker: Verity Films Limited Verity Films Limited
Military training film B552 produced for the Directorate of Army Kinematography by Verity Films Ltd, approved February 1943. For instructional purposes this film has been divided into several sections...F05123
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Anti aircraft guns AA50 M6
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
The American 102nd Coast Artillery Battalion demonstrate firepower of water cooled Browning .50 heavy machine guns on anti aircraft ground mounts in gun-pits. Identified United States personnel Captai...F01783
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Anti-Aircraft guns at Haifa
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
As a part of the measure to relieve the deficiency of anit-aircraft defences in Egypt and Palestine the 2/1st Field Regiment and the 2/4th Battalion were sent to Haifa and for a time served as anti-ai...F01048
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Anti-personnel obstacles: elementary
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Maker: Publicity Films Limited
A British military training film produced by Publicity Films Ltd. Showing anti-personnel barbed wire entanglements, types, erection and effectiveness. Reel 2: shows methods of breeching wire obstacles...F05027
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1. Anti-tank gunners hit high spots 2. Navy commemorates 1805. (Cinesound News No. 521)
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1. (1 min 24 sec) NSW, 1941. Men of the 4th Anti-Tank Regiment, Show amazing accuracy with their weapons in their first shoot with live ammunition 2. (1 min 6 sec) Trafalgar Day is celebrated by men o...F00550
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Anti-tank guns
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Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
Anti-tank gunners fire 2-pounder anti-tank guns at moving practice target. Guns mounted on Portees and on ground.F01204
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1. Anti-tank guns made in Australia 2. Air training corps has field day. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 14)
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1. (1 min 41 sec) Anti-tank guns made in Australia go through their paces before being sent into battle 2. (2 min 12 sec) Air Training Corps members parade before Wing Commander Elliott, inspect bombe...F00337
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1. Anti-tank practice with new automatic tin hare target 2. Melbourne pays tribute to untried soldiers and seasoned veterans. (Cinesound News No. 515)
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1. (2 min) Puckapunyal, Vic. A section of the new armoured division goes into action in realistic exercises. Manouevres with Bren Gun carriers. A Crusader tank. Vickers medium tanks on gunnery range f...F00544
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Anti-vehicle obstacles: advanced
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Maker: Publicity Films Limited
A military training film produced by Publicity Films Ltd. For the Directorate of Army Kinematography. This film shows the construction of an anti-tank ditch using a 19RB drag-line. After construction ...F05108
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Anti vehicle obstacles: elementary
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Maker: Publicity Films Limited
British military training B146 C122 film produced by Publicity Films Ltd. Photographic visuals supported by animated diagrams and commentary. Various obstacles are shown: ditches, natural and man made...F05078
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Anzac agreement signed at Canberra 21 January 1944 (News From Home No. 74)
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Anzac agreement is signed by New Zealand Prime Minister, Peter Fraser and Australian PM, John Curtin. Dr Evatt speaks before the signing.F00766
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Anzac club
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India?. Shot of a group of RAAF personnel on the balcony of the Anzac Welfare Centre.F02644
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Anzac Day in Australia, 1945
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Maker: Movietone News
A nation pauses in remembrance on Anzac Day. A Movietone newsreel.F00185
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Anzac Day Jerusalem 1940
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
On Anzac Day 1940 a remembrance service was held in the British War Cemetery Jerusalem, then a march through Jerusalem streets by Australian (2/4 Infantry Battalion) and unidentified kilted troops (pr...F01019
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Anzacs arrive in Greece
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
In March 1941 the Australian 6th Division embarked in the Middle East for Greece. This film covers troops on board troopships waiting to disembark in Greece. Greek villages and sightseeing in Athens. ...F01074
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Anzacs at Senio River
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Maker: Government Film Studios
Newsreel type item produced by Government Film Studios, Wellington New Zealand (NZ) gives an example of army-air co-operation between NZ Army Forces and 3 Squadron RAAF in Senio River area, Italy. Sho...F02063
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Anzacs leave for Greece
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Maker: Silk, George
HMAS Perth, takes Australian, British and Palestinian troops to Greek port.F01235
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Anzacs march again
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
A propaganda short produced by Movietone News for the Department of Information on the events leading up to the outbreak of the 1939-1945 war and Australia's part in the early stages.F01257
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Anzac story: British Commomwealth Air Training Plan in Canada
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Maker: National Film Board of Canada
Calgary, Alberta Canada, January 1945: The men from "down under" of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan receive training and get their wings before returning home to be posted. Ten thousand Aus...F02111
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A Polish sailor
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A story by Chief Petty Officer Pavel Plonka written down by Bruce Graeme. Directed and edited by Cenkalski. Covers the activities and operations of a Polish sailor while serving as submariner with the...F01604
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A2 Portable Photographic Laboratory
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Official War Department training film TF I-847 explaining the operation and use of the A2 portable photographic laboratory. Shows inspection prior to starting on a mission, selection of site, setting ...F02331
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Armistice Day parade
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Maker: O'Halloran, John Frederick M
At Mareeba showground Armistice Day parade 1944 was held to observe the two minute silence in remembrance of the fallen. After the two minute silence GOC Rear Echelon First Australian Army, Major Gene...F07564
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1. Armoured division on parade 2. Newsbriefs: Lady Gowrie in Sydney - General Macarthur and PM in Melbourne. (Cinesound News No. 556)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound newsreel No. 556. 1. (1 min 46 sec) American tanks demonstrate before a big parade which is inspected by Generals Blamey and Robertson 2. (35 sec) Sydney, NSW. Lady Gowrie tac...F00582
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1. Armoured Division parade in Melbourne 2. RAAF in Canada (Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No. 46)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News newsreel Vol. 12 No. 46. 1. (1 min 16 sec) Melbourne, Armoured Division parade in support of war loan 2. (3 min 52 sec) RAAF trainees of the Empire Air Training Schem...F00317
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Armoured Fighting Vehicle School
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Maker: Military History Section
Three M3 Cruiser (General Grant) tanks approach along a bitumen road. Tank Commander sits beside the turret reading. Crew inspect the tank, report to the commander and fall-in in front of the tank. ...F07030
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Armoured parade for war loan (Cinesound News N0. 523)
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50 Bren Gun carriers parade through Sydney streets.F00552
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2/4 Armoured Regiment take over Japanese tanks
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Maker: Wood, Frederick Sydney
On 28 September 1945, NX35124 Major John Harrold Mackay, Commander B Squadron, 2/4 Australian Armoured Regiment, officially took command of eighty Japanese tanks which had been placed by the Japanese,...F07358
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Armour of the infantry (Fox Movietone News Vol.14 No. 7)
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Maker: Movietone News
Infantry tanks in action under mock battle conditions. Combined exercise of Matilda tanks, infantry, 25 Pounder field guns, 2 Pounder anti-tank guns and Wirraway aircraft. Use of live shells.F00379
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Army-air co-operation
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Training film showing the co-operation of training between Army and RAAF. Students include RAAF and RNZAF pilots and Australian and Allied army officers. Shows the various operations involved for the ...F02074
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1. Army and Navy warplanes scrapped 2. Sailing ship "Danmark" goes home 3. Wounded soldiers learn to use new artificial limbs 4. Harbours of Pacific coast cleared of submarine nets 5. B24 in test crash 6. Army - Navy gridiron upset 7. Film reports from Japan MacArthur honoured 8. Bikini Atoll A-bomb test (Extracts from U.S. Movietone Newsreels)
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1. Army and Navy warplanes scrapped. 2. Sailing ship 'Danmark' goes home. 3. Wounded soldiers learn to use new artificial limbs. 4. Harbours of Pacific coast cleared of submarine nets. 5. B-24 in ...F03508
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Army and RAAF reinforcements enroute to New Guinea
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Army and airforce personnel on troopship and disembarking at Port Moresby, New Guinea. Shot eighteen shows three American cameramen. Martin Barnett of Paramount News with the Arkeley 35mm cine camera...F01209
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Army artists, Australian and US painters in the forces (News from home. No. 79)
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Extracts from News from home newsreel No. 79 showing Nora Heysen and American artist, Richard Rosenheinder at work on official war pictures.F00771
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1. Army assault course 2. Training packhorses 3. Battle of the Solomons. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 14 No 1)
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1. (2 min 11 sec) Troops go through assault course with sound effects 2. (1 min 38 sec) Training packhorses 3. (2 min) Solomons battle, transports at sea, barges go into landing, American plane brough...F00375
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Army Centurion tanks in realistic manoeuvres (AC120a)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extract from a Cinesound newsreel item. Commences with a survey of the use of tanks by the Australian Army in the 1939-1945 war and the different roles played tanks in the desert and the jungle campai...F03009
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Army field workshops
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Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
Townsville, Queensland 28 August 1942. 104 Brigade Workshop, AEME, AIF. General coverage of repairs of motor vehicles. Engine overhaul; panel beating; front end repairs and repairs to springs.F01205
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Army improvises huts native style
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
The 27th Battalion AMF shows what can be done in the Australian bush. First men chop down trees, saw them and cut them into lengths for uprights of their huts. Then paper bark trees are skinned and th...F01788
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Army mechanizes
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Maker: Movietone News
A Movietone News item. The 14th Field Artillery Brigade brings up its 4.5 inch howitzers with horses for the last time before mechanization. Location Holsworthy Camp, NSW.F01911
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Army medical rehabilitation
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Maker: Military History Section
Australian soldiers in action, evacuation of front line wounded, transport of wounded, hospitalization, convalescence and rehabilitation. [Reels 1 and 2 have sound, 3 and 4 are silent.]F07524
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1. Army postal service 2. Interview with Gene Tunney, world champion boxer 3. Bread for Naples. (News From Home No. 66)
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1. (1 min 26 sec) The story behind the Army postal service 2. (1 min 45 sec) Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxer, is interviewed by Fox Movietone on his arrival in Australia 3. (1 min 12 sec) The pe...F00759
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Army recuits in Queensland
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Maker: Movietone News
Army recruits of the 11th Field Brigade of the Royal Australian Artillery exercise on a beach in Queensland. The commentator states that they are "....training to fight and to fight clean".F01913
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1. Army salvage finds use for discarded uniforms 2. Daring Japanese raiders sunk in Sydney Harbour (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 25)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
1. (1 min 33 sec) NSW Premier's wife joins workers in civilian war emergency clothing scheme making children's suits from damaged khaki 2. (4 min 10 sec) Japanese raid, Sydney Harbour, eye witness sto...F00348
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Army School of Physical & Recreational Training
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Maker: Department of Information
Melbourne Showground, Victoria, December 1939. Army School of Physical and Recreational Training exercising with medicine balls, mass drill, demonstrations of unarmed defence. Lieutenant General Sir T...F01111
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1. Army shoots down air force in rugby blitz 2. Diggers return from overseas 3. Girls in Khaki. (Cinesound News No. 564)
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1. (2 min 11 sec) Army versus air force in rugby game 2. (57 sec) Diggers return from overseas and are united with their families 3. (2 min 39 sec) A day in the life of the AWAS. General Plant inspect...F00590
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Army's most precarious job
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Bomb disposal in the Western Desert. Royal Engineers bomb disposal unit receive a report that a UXB (unexploded bomb) has been dropped in a certain camp area. The bomb disposal officer is sent to inve...F01828
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1. Army specialists learn latest in battle technique 2. Queensland, 25 pounder practice. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 31)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 31. 1. (2 min 8 sec) Field engineers practice mobile bridging with box girder at School of Military Engineering, Liverpool, NSW. 2. (58 sec) Queensland, 25...F00353
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1. Army tests compressed foods 2. RAAF departure. (Cinesound News No. 517)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No. 517. 1. (1 min 44 sec) Food briquettes compressed under a compression of one ton contain a square meal. May be the answer of iron rations for paratroops. Vic...F00546
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Army trains in rubber boats. (Cinesound News No. 522)
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Rubber boats made in Australia are used in river crossing exercise.F00551
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Army trains wild donkeys for pack work
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Maker: Driver, Roy
During the wet season tracks to army outposts become too boggy for motor convoys. To overcome this difficulty the army are rounding up wild donkeys to be trained as pack animals. These donkeys are rat...F01258
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Army visit to Bathurst Island and Melville Island
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Maker: Crispe, Ronald Roy
This film was taken by WX30779 Lieutenant Ronald Roy Crispe, Darwin Coast Artillery AIF, while on visit with a Darwin Water Transport vessel to Catholic missions at Bathurst Island and Melville Island...F03714
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Arraignment of General Tomoyuki Yamashita
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Maker: Cuffley, Leighton Edward
Arraignment of General Tomoyuki Yamashita by American Military Commission at the residence of US High Commissioner, Dewey Road, Manila. General Reynolds (US Army) and his staff sit at head of the cour...F07374
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Arrival Adelaide
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Port Adelaide, South Australia. RAAF personnel return from overseas service. Air Force Association welcome banner on wharf. The airmen are met by their families. Children line the street waving Union ...F02152
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Arrival and departure, Colombo
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Australian soldiers on a troopship entering Colombo. Troops ashore. Troops sailing away from Colombo.F01004
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Arrival in Rabaul of Mr J K Murray
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Maker: Dolan, Samuel Murray
The Civil Administrator, Mr J K Murray, accompanied by his staff, NGX371 (NG2455) Mr Kenneth Carlyle MacMullen, Mr R Rose and Mr T V Lowney arrived at Rabaul by Catalina flying boat aircraft. On arriv...F07428
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Arrival Melbourne
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Shows arrival of the "Tamaroa" at Princes Wharf, Melbourne on 16 October 1945 and arrival of the "Stratheden" at Railway Wharf, Melbourne on 17 October 1945. The "Stratheden" coming in to wharf, perso...F02153
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Arrival of Australian paratroops at Singapore
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Maker: Nicholson, George Harvey
In the afternoon of 9 September 1945, five C47 Dakota transport aircraft arrived over Singapore Island in formation and after circling the city, landed at the civil airport. They contained men of 1 Au...F07323
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Arrival of Australian's servicemen's dependents in Japan
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Maker: O'Halloran, John Frederick M
Australian servicemen's dependants arrived in Kure on the 11 June 1947, in the Merkur from Australia. The families, twenty seven wives and twenty three children, came from all Australian states except...F07476
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Arrival of Duke of Gloucester in Syria
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Maker: Military History Section
Coverage of the Duke of Gloucester's visit to the Tripoli area. Duke of Gloucester accompanied by General Leslie Morshead inspect guard of honour in town square.F07011
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Arrival of evacuated POW from Sumatra at Singapore
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Maker: Nicholson, George Harvey
Although Sumatra had not yet been occupied by Allied troops, Dakota aircraft of RAF, RAAF, and Royal New Zealand Air Force started flying POW and internees to Singapore on 15 September 1945. By 17 Sep...F07341
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Arrival of first contingent of the Australian Army Nursing Service. Native sing-sing, Jaquinot Bay
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Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
On 24 February 1945 the first contingent of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) arrived at Jacquinot Bay on the troopship "Katoomba". This item covers the arrival of the "Katoomba" and a few sh...F01988
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Arrival of Japanese envoys from Bandjermasin
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Maker: O'Halloran, John Frederick M
A party of Japanese, Major Hirmatu (Army), Morita (Interpreter) and Captain Gato (Navy), attended HQ 7th Australian Division, for a conference on carrying out of surrender arrangements. Australian off...F07320
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Arrival of Japanese surrender envoys at Balikpapan
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Maker: Barrett, Reginald Mervyn (Reg) O'Halloran, John Frederick M
As a result of an intermediary conference held at Japanese HQ on 3 September (See film F07312) a party of Japanese officers arrived at HQ 7 Australian Division to further discuss surrender and arrange...F07313
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Arrival of Lend Lease goods from United States
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Maker: Military History Section
Unloading of Lend Lease goods from ship. Appears to be Victoria Dock, Melbourne, Victoria. Equipment unloaded includes M3 General Stuart Light Tank and large wooden cases marked "Buick Motor GM Corp, ...F07034
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Arrival of Lieutenant General H C H Robertson as C-in-C BCOF
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Maker: Military History Section, BCOF
34 (VX20321, VX80578) Lieutenant Colonel Horace Clement Hugh Robertson CBE DSO, flew from Australia to Tokyo a few days prior to 16 June 1946, the date on which he was to officially take over command ...F07465