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Advance on Kokoda
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Kokoda Trail, 8 October 1942. Scenes during the advance of Australian forces over ground just evacuated by the Japanese. Australians examine Japanese 75 mm mountain gun and ammunition. Bringing up 25 ...F01809
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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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Attack on Buna
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Buna, December, 1942. Camouflaged gun emplacement. Generals Herring and Berryman and Brigadier Wootten plan the attack. Wounded Australians and Japanese. Telephoto shots of shell bursts photographed f...F01810
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Attack on Waitavalo
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Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
General coverage of the attack on Waitavalo Plantation New Britain. Supply difficulties, artillery bombardment of enemy positions, wounded Australians, captured Japanese equipment ( Type 99 7.7 mm Lig...F01697
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31/51 Australian Infantry Battalion landing at Sipaai, North Bougainville
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
This film covers the move of the unit from Torokina to a new forward base in the north-west coast at Sipaai, near the mouth of the Kiakara River. The troops were moved in three barges escorted by the ...F07185
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25 Battalion in action at Artillery Ridge, Bougainville
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
Vought Corsairs of the RNZAF flying left to right. 25 Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel J. G. McKinna, observing strafing. Mount Bagana in background. 3 inch mortar unit in action firing from emplacment. ...F07184
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Bennett visits hospital
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Major General Henry Gordon Bennett, CB, CMG, DSO, VD visits hospital, Singapore. He talks to patients. Patients receive treatment. Scene of an Australian Aboriginal soldier in a hospital bed.F01167
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Cavalcade of victory
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
For some months British Allied Forces and the Axis Army, lay locked in stalemate in the desert of Quatara and El Alamein. Rommel's thrust to conquer Egypt had failed, but he was massing for another d...F01825
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El Alamein, Dabaa wounded & field hospital
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Maker: Military History Section
Australian Army Band playing outdoors. Stretcher bearers and truck outside of Field Hospital tents. Tower, store sheds, platform and railway lines at Dabaa Station with four-wheel railway truck, railw...F07017
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Evacuation of wounded Nadzab
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
Sign at Nadzab drome reads "Change here for Tsili-Tsili, Port Moresby, Milne Bay, Dobodura, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Tokio". Also hand pointing direction to "City Cafe". Two soldiers hold up torn Japanese ...F07057
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Gas first aid: collection of wounded, stretcher bearer's equipment
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Maker: Coombe Productions Ltd
A military training film produced for the Directorate of Army Kinematography by Coombe Productions Ltd. This film illustrates, while commentary describes, stretcher bearers' anti-gas equipment clothin...F05051
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2/5 Independent Company in New Guinea and Borneo / Mick Sheehan
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Maker: Sheehan, Michael Lawrence (Mick)
Mick Sheehan's film record of his service with the 2/5 Independent Company (later 2/5 Cavalry Commando Squadron) in New Guinea and Bougainville. Shows VX56 Major Ian Kerr CO 2/5 Commando Squadron. Inv...F03422
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2/23 Inf. Battalion on Tarakan Island
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Maker: Hardy, Douglas Charles
Coverage of activities in Tarakan area made up from Cpl Doug Hardy's original job numbers 359, 365, 366 & 367. VX147635 Private (Pte) Reginald Vincent Clarke and VX142554 Pte Peter Leslie Dow of 11th ...F07216
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Japanese POW patients in 2/1 Aust Casualty Clearing Station
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Maker: Hardy, Douglas Charles
These scenes of Japanese POW patients were taken by Sergeant (Sgt) D C Hardy while he was a patient at the 2/1 Australian Casualty Clearing Station. The following is a transcription of Sgt Hardy's pre...F07559
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Manunda and New Guinea / Major William Maurice Ada
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Maker: Ada, William Maurice
Partial colour home movie showing ship board scenes and views of Manunda and New Guinea; views from the ship; shots of Australian army personnel on board the Manunda; nurses on boarding craft, wearin...F04767
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RAAF in Western Desert
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Maker: Monro, Ronald Keith
The activities of 3 Squadron RAAF in the Western Desert. Shows Squadron personnel messing, the evacuation of casualities by air ambulance, ground crew servicing Kittyhawk aircraft and shots from a fl...F07002
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Reflections on training and leadership: an interview with Lieutenant-Colonel Ben O'Dowd (In retrospect)
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Maker: Australian War Memorial Training Technology Centre Australian Army
This oral history focuses on the training Lieutenant Colonel O'Dowd underwent when he enlisted in 1939 and examines aspects of training during his career. The subjects of the battlefield stress and le...F04842
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Shaggy Ridge
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
General coverage of attack on Shaggy Ridge. Bombing and strafing by B-25 Mitchell Bombers. Vickers guns giving cover to troops moving along the Ridge. Troops moving along the Faria River cross from si...F01699
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Shaggy Ridge No 2
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Maker: Nicholson, George Harvey
Overlooking Shaggy Ridge and surrounding mountain ranges. Soldier firing Bren Gun towards camera left. Three soldiers standing on slope of hill beside bagged sand emplacement. Group of soldiers with w...F07075
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Shaggy Ridge No 3
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
Four walking wounded men from 2/10 Australian Infantry Battalion. Native boys carry stretcher case. Leader of patrol of 18 Australian Infantry Brigade men. Men of "C" Company, 18 Australian Infantry B...F07076
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Shooting in New Guinea the concluding scenes for Mr Charles Chauvel's film Rats of Tobruk
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Maker: Nicholson, George Harvey
With the co-operation of Australian New Guinea Administrative Unit (ANGAU), about 50 native carriers under the control of Captain Keinzle, were made available, and 'A' company, less one platoon from 2...F07086
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[1st Tactical Airforce Force at Noemfoor Island] (RAAF Batch 016)
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Maker: RAAF Cine Unit
Noemfoor Island, shot of a group of Indian POWs moving stretcher cases onto a DUKW for transport to ship. Indian POWs being transfered from a beached Landing Ship Tank (LST) onto a DUKW. Sign post lis...F02629
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2/6th Australian General Hospital
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
View along line of beds in canvas type hospital ward at the 2/6th Australian General Hospital. Nursing Sister attending to patient. View along row of beds in ward. Nursing Sister taking a patient's...F07132
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The new front line
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Maker: Bedford, Eric
Produced for the Department of Home Security by Eric Bedford. Technical direction by the National Emergency Services NSW. The Minister of Home Security asks civilians to prepare for total war. The pop...F01763
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Three in a shell hole
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Propaganda film produced by Leonid Leoniv. A Soviet War News Agency film designed to inspire hatred for the German soldier. A wounded Soviet soldier, a Soviet Red Cross girl and a wounded German soldi...F01667
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Tobruk siege
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Maker: Lumley, William
Tobruk, Libya circa 1941. Activities at the 2/4th Australian General Hospital. Shows men bathing in the sea. Washing clothes in sea water. Soldier dressed in a towel filling sand bags infront of uncom...F10059
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Transferring patients to hospital ship at sea
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Maker: Military History Section
Coverage of the transfer of casualities from a warship to a Hospital ship. Shows casualties placed and strapped in metal stretchers. The ship to ship transfer by the use of a flying fox. Shot of the c...F07567