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Interview with Nora Symonds and stills (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Nora Symonds and stills (When the war came to Australia)F04096
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Interview with Pansy Hickey (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Pansy Hickey (When the war came to Australia)F04148
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Interview with Pat Grainger (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Film Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Pat Grainger for the television documentary series When the war came to Australia.F04168
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Interview with Pat Heher (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Pat Heher worked in Sydney at David Jones department store in the shoe section. The Ministry of Munitions took over the Market Street store, so the entire concern was crammed into the Elizabeth St...F04040
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Interview with Pat Neich and stills (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Pat Neich and stills. (When the war came to Australia).F04137
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Interview with Patsy Adam-Smith (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Adam-Smith became a Voluntary Aide working in hospitals in North Queensland for three years. The nursing consisted mostly of inoculations, malaria and worms were rife. Casualties were from New Gui...F04158
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Interview with Peggy Williams (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Peggy Williams. Discusses her role during the war, her joining the Australian Women's Land Army, her duties and experiences as a Land Army girl.F04012
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Interview with Peter Huskins (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Peter Huskins was a bank clerk with the Bank of NSW when he signed up at the age of 19. He joined the North Australia Observer Unit known as the Nackeroos: a unit of men spread throughout the North...F04029
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Interview with Phil Chapman (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Phil Chapman was a member of the Coastwatchers and was stationed at coastal radio station VID Darwin Radio. The Coastwatchers were set up by the Royal Australian Navy by Commander Falt. The Navy su...F04049
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Interview with Phillip Koch and Noel Bennell (Frontline out takes)
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Maker: Bennell, Noel Koch, Phillip Burton Bradbury, David
Noel Bennell as a television correspondent and editor for Channel 10 and Phillip Koch as a correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) describe TV coverage of the Vietnam war era; P...F10548
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Interview with Phyllis Wong (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Phyllis Wong whose husband was Chinese Consul General during the war years. Discusses her coming to Australia, her social activities, her fund raising activities, impressions of Robert ...F04023
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Interview with Queenie Shepherd (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Queenie Shepherd (When the war came to Australia)F04113
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Interview with Ralph Doig (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
In 1940 Ralph Doig was the Private Secretary to the Premier of Western Australia. He joined the Citizen's Military Force and became a platoon commander. After six months' service he had to return to t...F04060
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Interview with Ray Adams (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Ray Adams enlisted for the army but was not needed so he joined the Voluntary Defence Corps (VDC). The VDC was started by the veterans of the First World War. Each town had their own branch. Those who...F04084
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Interview with Ray Blisset (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Ray Blisset was a Detective Constable stationed at Glebe at the outbreak of the war. He describes the blackmarket in tinned fish, butter, etc. Wharfies did a lot of blackmarketing, with many crimin...F04055
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Interview with Ren De Garis (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Film Productions Pty Ltd Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with 39467 Sergeant Renfrey Curgenven De Garis. Mr De Garis talks about a Dad's Army which was created in Millicent after the war broke out. It was intended for people waiting to be called u...F04104
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Interview with Rick Pisaturo (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Pisaturo was an Italian soldier during World War 2 who served in Libya. He describes conditions for the Italian troops in the desert: very bad. He was taken prisoner in Benghazi and ended up sailin...F04043
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Interview with Robert Squires (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Robert Squires worked for Pool Petroleum during the war. He was based in Townsville where they were fuelling hundreds of vehicles and ships from 1943-1945. He comments on the National Day of Prayer, c...F04063
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Interview with Roger Jones and still (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Roger Jones and still (When the war came to Australia)F04124
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Interview with Roma Wallis and stills. Interview with Pasquale Matera and stills. (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Wallis was a teenager during the war and describes air raid drills, dances, the war effort work undertaken by the Voluntary Aid Detachments, the National Aid Detachments concerts, glee clubs. She ...F04081
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Interview with Rosemary McCourt (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Rosemary McCourt (When the war came to Australia)F04119
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Interview with Rowan Waddy (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Rowan Waddy who became a member of Z Special Unit. Discusses the reasons why it was set up, what it was supposed to do, how he joined up, training on Fraser Island in Queensland, censor...F04022
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Interview with Roy Hall (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Roy Hall who joined the Admiralty Yachtsmans Scheme - a scheme which recruited yachtsmen in Australia for small craft duties with the Royal Navy. He discusses how he became involved in ...F04017
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Interview with Roy Parker (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Ray Parker who came to Australia as a member of the 22nd Bombardment Group USAAF in June 1943. Discusses his first impressions of Australia, how they spent their rest and recreation lea...F04021
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Interview with Russell Braddon (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Braddon joined the army after completing his degree. He comments on the 'Ratty Diggers' - men who signed up for the Second World War after surviving the First World War. He remarks that the army re...F04155
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Interview with Sally Bowen (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Sally Bowen (When the war came to Australia)F04156
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Interview with Sandy Rayward (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Sandy Rayward who left Australia on the first convoy for the Middle East on 10 January 1940 on the Orford. Discusses his enlistment, the effects of the depression and hard times on the ...F04020
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Interview with Shirley Fenton Huie and stills. (When the war came to Australia).
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Interview with Shirley Fenton Huie and stills. (When war came to Australia).F04147
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Interview with Sir David Hay CBE, DSO, MBE (Mil) by Major Nick Welch: finished production (In retrospect: an oral history. Training for the complexities of war)
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Maker: Training Technology Centre Australian Army
The subject selected for this Oral history is Sir David Hay CBE, DSO, MBE (Mil) whose career spanned the full period of the Second World War. As such he is well qualified to comment on the subject of ...F04849
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Interview with Ted Hartley. (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Ted Hartley was a conscientious objector, and outlines his beliefs which prompted his stand as a conscientious objector. He felt conscription was illegal, including conscription for war work and ci...F04053
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Interview with Thelma Long (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Film Productions Pty Ltd Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Thelma Long visited Germany in 1938 as a team member of the Australian Women's Tennis Team and describes her experiences. As part of the war effort, she joined the Red Cross as a transport driver ...F04037
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Interview with Theo Carty (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Theo 'Tip' Carty who served with the North Australia Observer Unit or Nackeroos as they called themselves. He discusses the role of the Nackeroos, how and where they survived, the chanc...F04019
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Interview with Tom Collins. (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Tom Collins worked in Darwin to set up cameras on reconnaisance aircraft. The results were used for identification and mapping. Collins stated that the aircraft used by the RAAF were not appropriate. ...F04056
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Interview with Toni Mooy Hurley (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Toni Mooy Hurley (When the war came to Australia)F04134
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Interview with Tony Polverino (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Polverino, Tony Look Film Productions Pty Ltd Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Tony Polverino was a school boy and member of the Boy Scouts during the war. He worked as a bicycle messenger with the National Emergency Services (NES). Mr Polverino talks about carrying messages ...F04034
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Interview with Vi McLauchlan and stills; Stills Christina Mowrbay (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Vi McLauchlan and stills; Stills Christina Mowrbay (When the war came to Australia)F04115
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Ivan Reginald Barnett as a Sapper Royal Australian Engineers interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
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Maker: The Notion Picture Company Pty Limited Barnett, Ivan Reginald Swanborough, Greg
Scene 9 Take 1; Asked to recount the dog story; describes going down a tunnel 4 to 5 feet deep and crawling 70 ft then went right and then left then went up some stairs which went under a house; did a...F10628
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James Raymond Bourke as a Lieutenant 1 RAR interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
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Maker: The Notion Picture Company Pty Limited Bourke, James Raymond Swanborough, Greg
Scene 9. Take 1. describes the events coming into the Landing Zone (LZ) on the third lift of helicopters for the Ho Bo Woods operation on what they thought was a blocking position; the helicopter mach...F10621
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James Taylor Murrell as a member of 4 RAR interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
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Maker: The Notion Picture Company Pty Limited Murrell, James Taylor Swanborough, Greg
Nominated his choice of Corps as a butcher in Transport, Artillery or Engineers; notified that he got his first choice as a butcher in the infantry; Scene M Take 2. comment that the first time a war w...F10625
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Jean McLean as a member 'Save our sons' organisation interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
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Maker: The Notion Picture Company Pty Limited McLean, Jean Swanborough, Greg
Roll 23 Scene 20. Take 1 beginning of the Save our sons movement; started with women who were friends who were concerned about their sons being conscripted for overseas service; manifesto against con...F10619
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Jennifer Leeson as a volunteer soldier's wife interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
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Maker: The Notion Picture Company Pty Limited Leeson, Jennifer Swanborough, Greg
Roll 16. Take 1; background to husband Peter Leeson's battalion 7RAR, raised specifically to go to Vietnam; queries training for tropical warfare in the Jameson Valley, Victoria; the men were always a...F10615
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Jim Cannon at Fort Scratchley. (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Film Productions Pty Ltd Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Jim Cannon at Fort Scratchley.(When the war came to Australia)F04142
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John Alan Paule as Wing Commander 9 Squadron RAAF interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
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Maker: Petersen, Joel Swanborough, Greg Paule, John Alan Swanborough, Greg Gentle, Victor
Roll 11. Scene 16 Take 1 Medical evacuations known as Dust offs not the usual 9 Squadron job; no more difficult than any other job; aircrew could not look after wounded as could the regular Dust off...F10610
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John Arnold Warr as the Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Officer 5 RAR interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
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Maker: The Notion Picture Company Pty Limited Warr, John Arnold Swanborough, Greg
Lieutenant Colonel CO 5RAR 6 January 1966 to 13 January 1966; Lieutenant Colonel CO 5RAR 27 April 1966 to 30 April 1967. Warr visited Vietnam after an intelligence meeting in Australia and it was sugg...F10650
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John Boyd Healy AATTV and 1 RAR interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
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Maker: Petersen, Joel Swanborough, Greg Healy, John Boyd Swanborough, Greg Gentle, Victor
Scene 1 Takes 1-3 Rolls 6-7. Australian Army Training Team (AATTV) were the first Australian troops sent to Vietnam in 1962; departing Singapore in civilian clothing because Singapore didn’t want to b...F10605
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John Charles Robbins as a Lance Corporal D Coy 6 RAR interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
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Maker: The Notion Picture Company Pty Limited Robbins, John Charles Swanborough, Greg
Lance Corporal D Coy, 6RAR 8 June 1966 to 7 September 1966. Scene 5, Take 1: The 1964 conscription was seen as another part of life, an adventure. At nineteen, most hadn’t thought about Australia’s ...F10634
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John Cyril Thompson as a Sapper 1 Field Troop Royal Australian Engineers interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
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Maker: The Notion Picture Company Pty Limited Thompson, John Cyril Swanborough, Greg
Sapper, 1 Field Squadron, Royal Australian Engineers. From 6 January 1967 to 23 June 1967. Scene 16, Take 1: Of about thirty thousand Australian mines laid, fifteen to twenty thousand were retrieved ...F10645
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John Essex-Clarke as a Major 1 RAR interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
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Maker: The Notion Picture Company Pty Limited Essex-Clark, John Swanborough, Greg
Major, 1RAR Scene 7, Take 1, roll 68: 1RAR prepared for conventional warfare as a Pentropic Battalion then trained for tropical warfare before going to Vietnam. Understanding of guerrilla fighting a...F10657
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Kalgoorlie (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Kalgoorlie (When the war came to Australia)F04067
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Kathleen Lonergan playing the piano (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Kathleen Lonergan playing the piano.F04091