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A. A. and submarine lookout, Red Sea
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Ack Ack and submarine lookout, Red Sea. The sketch was completed during Dargie's voyage to Australia aboard the HMT "Felix Roussel". This was a Free French ship which, in company of the US ship "Holb...ART23898
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Ack-Ack pit
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
A Bren Gun crew on the look-out for enemy aircraft in an Ack-Ack pit in Libya. The anti-aircraft gun is a Bren Light Machine Gun (LMG).ART21911
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A crew member of the Sea King helicopter (05) from HMAS Tobruk inside the entrance to the ...
Photograph
Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
A crew member of the Sea King helicopter (05) from HMAS Tobruk inside the entrance to the aircraft. Note his MAG 58 general purpose machine gun. The Tobruk was support vessel for the Australian contin...P01735.164
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Airman in nose turret of Liberator
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
This is the Emerson electrically operated power turret, fitted with two 0.5 inch Browning machine gun. In the sketch the airman can be seen through the sections of bullet resistant glass, which, toget...ART21048
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"Ammunition." and remember bonds buy bullets.
Art
Maker: Lynch, Vincent Division of Pictorial Publicity Ketterlinus
United States First World War poster promoting the sale of War Bonds. It features an image of a soldier with a rifle, machine gun and empty ammunition boxes, at the front, reaching out toward the vie...ARTV00838
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A river patrol during operation Portsea DPR/TV/595
Film
Part of the song Rai River in the east of Phuoc Tuy Province was searched during operation 'Portsea' by soldiers of the Assault Pioneer Platoon of the 6th Battalion RAR. The platoon launched aluminiu...F10140
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Astrolobe Bay
Art
Maker: Belcher, Douglas Leonard
An Australian soldier is depicted sitting down, with a cigarette in hand, overlooking a view of Astrolobe Bay with mountains in the background. A machine gun can be seen propped up on rocks beside him...ART28247
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Attack on Waitavalo
Film
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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Austin, Gerald William (Major, b.1905 – d.1974)
Private Record
Maker: Austin, Gerald William Unknown
Collection relating to the Second World War service of NX155 Major Gerald William Austin, 2/1 Machine Gun Battalion, Second Australian Imperial Force, Australia, Egypt, Greece, New Guinea, 1940-1960. ...PR05293
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AUSTRALIAN TROOPS AT DARWIN. OVERHAULING A MACHINE GUN.
Photograph
Maker: Unknown Australian Official Photographer
AUSTRALIAN TROOPS AT DARWIN. OVERHAULING A MACHINE GUN.012039/06
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Bantams: men may be accepted for service with infantry units with a minimum measurement of 5 feet...
Art
Maker: State Recruiting Committee of Victoria Mullett, Albert J
Australian First World War recruitment poster issued by the State Recruiting Committee of Victoria in 1917 urging ' Bantams' to enlist following the reduction of height restrictions for entry into the...ARTV04967
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Barum village
Art
Maker: Belcher, Douglas Leonard
Depicts three native huts amidst a shroud of palm trees at Barum, on the coast near Bogadjim. A soldier with a machine gun can be seen in the foreground, and three other soldiers stand in the middle g...ART28241
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6 Battalion RAR [Long Tan] battle aftermath DPR/TV/427
Film
Maker: Cunneen, William James
This is the scene of the bloodiest and most decisive battle yet fought by Australian troops in Vietnam. And these are the men of "D" Company, 6th Battalion, who took the brunt of the action. Seventeen...F03787
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"B" Coy 6 RAR and New Zealand infantry training DPR/TV/294
Film
Maker: Ford, Darrell Colin
An Anzac force in the training area of 'Little Malaya' near Oxford, in the Kikoura Ranges of New Zealand's South Island, is holding an exercise called 'Tranquilliser'. It is in the form of South-East...F03683
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Beretta Modello 38A Sub-machine Gun
Technology
Beretta Model 1938A Sub-machine Gun. Machined steel action with a drilled steel barrel jacket. One piece wood stock that has finger grooves on each side of the fore end and the butt has been broken of...RELAWM28524
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Beretta Modello 38A Sub-machine Gun
Technology
Beretta Model 38A Sub-machine Gun. Machined steel action with a drilled steel barrel jacket. One piece wood stock that has finger grooves on each side of the fore end and the butt has been cut off at ...RELAWM33540
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Beretta Modello 38/42 Sub-machine Gun
Technology
Beretta modello 38/42 Sub-machine Gun. Machined steel action with a fluted barrel and a wooden butt stock that has a single finger groove to each side of the fore end. The lower sling bar is inlet int...RELAWM20720
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Boulton & Paul turret
Film
Maker: Cinema Branch Department of Information
A RAAF training film produced by Cinema Branch Department of Information. Covers daily inspection and maintenance of the Bolton and Paul turret as used on the Lockheed Hudson bomber. The turret is sho...F02323
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Bridge, Henry (Private, b.? - d.1918)
Private Record
Maker: Bridge, Henry
Collection relating to service of 504 Private Henry Bridge, 2 Machine Gun Battalion, France, 1916-1918. Collection includes letters written home to family in England from training camp in Australia a...1DRL/0151
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Browning M2 Aircraft Machine Gun
Technology
Browning M2 Aircraft Machine Gun. Rectangular rivetted box section construction receiver with an air cooled barrel that has a perforated cover jacket. On the right side of the receiver is M2,BROWNING ...REL26873
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Browning M2 Aircraft Machine Gun
Technology
Browning M2 Aircraft Machine Gun. Rectangular rivetted box section construction receiver with an air cooled barrel that has a perforated cover jacket. On the right side of the receiver is M2,BROWNING ...REL26872
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Camera gunnery
Film
A Official RAAF training film on camera gunnery. Shows the routine at an RAAF Gunnery School. Covers the loading of the camera gun in the aircraft turret and other procedures involved in flight exerci...F02349
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Camouflaged gun position
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
Camouflaged machine gun position of the training wing at Georges Heights, Sydney. On the verso is a charcoal sketch of a truck.ART23683
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Carroll, Percy Thomas (Private, b.1893 - d.1954)
Private Record
Maker: Carroll, Percy Thomas
Collection relating to the First World War service of 1101 Private Percy Thomas Carroll, 23rd Infantry Battalion, 1915-1917. Collection consists of a black covered diary spanning the period 8 May 1915...PR04389
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Chester Wilmot
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
A portrait of possibly Chester Wilmot, a war correspondent. verso: Sketches of Japanese insignia and a 96 Brent type Light Machine GunART29947
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Chicom Type 56 (RPD) Light Machine Gun
Technology
Chicom Type 56 (RPD) Light Machine Gun. Machined steel receiver, air cooled barrel with a gas port underneath. A folding bipod is attached to the barrel near the muzzle. It has a wooden butt and pisto...REL/03027
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Coastal Patrol between Lae & Finschafen
Art
Maker: Mainwaring, Geoffrey
Showing Lae burning in the distance. Seen from P.T Boat 143, on the night of the landing by 9th Australian Division at Lae, whilst operating in the Huon Gulf area. The skipper of the P.T Boat is Lieut...ART22144
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Coastwatch
Film
Maker: Defence Public Relations (DPR)
A Defence Public Relation "Sentinel series" documentary film portraying Australian Coastal Surveillance duties of aircraft (including a GAF Nomad) and RAN Patrol Boats of the Fremantle Class, HMAS Wa...F10272
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Common stoppages in automatic weapons
Film
Maker: Publicity Picture Productions Limited
Australian Military Forces Directorate of Military Training film C 852 from the RAEME (Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) Training Centre Command Library (copy 'A'). It was produced...AWM2018.451.3
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Corporal Ronald Kenneth Cashman MM, Royal Australian Infantry Corps, interviewed by Bill Bunbury in 1998 on his service during the Korean War, 1951-1953.
Sound
Maker: Cashman, Ronald Kenneth Bunbury, Bill Bunbury, Bill
Recorded by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio National 'Hindsight' for the program 'Korea, 1950-1953, The Forgotten War'. Reasons for enlisting to go to Korea; knowledge of Korea a...S01905
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Digger in captured Italian strongpoint
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian digger manning an Italian Breda machine gun in a captured Italian stronghold.ART26207
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Dissassembly of P-40 armament
Film
Maker: United States Army Signal Corps
Official War Department training film I-739 produced by the Signal Corps in collaboration with the Army Air Forces. Explains the disassembly of the Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk armament consisting of six .5...F02362
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Distinguished Conduct Medal: Private Thomas Arnott, 1st Battalion, AIF
Heraldry
Maker: Unknown
Distinguished Conducted Medal (Geo V). Impressed around edge with recipient's details.AWM2021.659.1.1
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During his visit to the RAAF Contingent at Vung Tau, South Vietnam, the Chief of the Air Staff ...
Photograph
Maker: Ward, Barrie Thomas Burrill
During his visit to the RAAF Contingent at Vung Tau, South Vietnam, the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) Air Marshal Sir Alister Murdoch, inspected the twin mounted M60 machine guns being tested on RAAF h...VN/67/0159/26
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During his visit to the RAAF Contingent at Vung Tau, South Vietnam, the Chief of the Air Staff ...
Photograph
Maker: Ward, Barrie Thomas Burrill
During his visit to the RAAF Contingent at Vung Tau, South Vietnam, the Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) Air Marshal Sir Alister Murdoch, inspected the twin mounted M60 machine guns being tested on RAAF h...VN/67/0159/28
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Easton, George Campbell (Corporal)
Private Record
Maker: Easton, George Campbell
Collection relating to service of 554 Corporal George Campbell Easton, 2 Machine Gun Battalion, France, 1917. Collection includes typewritten extracts from letters written home to family in Sydney, N...1DRL/0255
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Falconer, Douglas (Lieutenant, b.1886 - d.1949)
Private Record
Maker: Falconer, Douglas
Collection relating to the First World War service of Second Lieutenant Douglas Falconer, 15th Field Ambulance, Belgium, 23 - 28 September, 1917. Wallet 1 of 1 - This collection consists of a short ...2DRL/0524
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Fall of Sattelberg
Film
Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Sattelberg road river crossing. Bulldozers make a ford and tow any jeeps that get stuck. Engineers work on foundations of bridge. Pontoon crossing. Wounded coming back by jeep. Jeeps bringing up food ...F01878
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Feed the guns with war bonds and help to end the war
Art
Maker: Thomas, Samuel Herbert National War Savings Committee Grosvenor Press Ltd.
British First World War poster issued by the National War Savings Committee to promote the sale of war bonds. It features a image of 3 British infantrymen in the upper left corner. One is standing whi...ARTV00974
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Flak 30 Anti Aircraft Gun Barrel
Technology
The 2 cm Flak 30 was the standard German light antiaircraft gun until the introduction of the 2 cm Flak 38 and the Flakvierling 38. The gun is recoil-operated, fed by 20-round magazine, and may be fir...RELAWM34336
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Folding machine gun pintle mounting
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Tubular machine gun mounting with a bracket welded to the base; Nuts and bolts attach to this mounting. The upper tubular section can be swivelled and folded horizontal. Finished in an olive drab pain...REL48788
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Fullard, Arthur Frederick (Lieutenant b.1895 - d.1979)
Private Record
Maker: Fullard, Arthur Frederick
Bound typed transcript of three diaries of Lieutenant Arthur Frederick Fullard (8th Machine Gun Company, 5th Division), covering the period November 1915 to December 1918. They describe his enlistment...PR01029
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Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. July 1915. Two historic points are shown here. Slightly to the left ...
Photograph
Maker: Bean, Charles Edwin Woodrow (C E W)
Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey. July 1915. Two historic points are shown here. Slightly to the left is Ari Burnu Knoll which was the first objective of the 3rd Australian Brigade on landing at Gallipoli....G01086
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Help them: keep your war savings pledge
Art
Maker: Emerson, Casper American Lithographic Company
Depicts an American gun crew armed with war savings stamps for ammunition. Issued by the US Treasury Department, it emplores the American population to contribute to the war effort by buying more war ...ARTV00009
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Hispano Mk 5* Aircraft Cannon : Royal Australian Air Force
Technology
Hispano Mk5* Aircraft Cannon, marked HISPANO 20mm GUN BIRKIGT PATENTS BRITISH M.A.R.C. LTD. and the serial number. It has a yellow painted number 6 on the left side.REL/02144.001
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Improvised machine gun flash extinguisher : Steele's Post, Gallipoli
Technology
Maker: Unknown
Steel flash extinguisher [suppressor] for a machine gun. It is made from a piece of flat steel rolled to form a cylinder, held together by rivets. There are three shrapnel holes near the rivets. At on...RELAWM00419
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Infantry firepower pounds Viet Cong DPR/TV/271
Film
Maker: Defence Public Relations (DPR)
Troops and vehicle moved into positions on the south bank of the Dong Nai River early morning and throughout the day directed their fire at preplanned targets across the river in war zone 'D', which t...F10082
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In flight view of helicopters and military stores from inside a helicopter (looking past a crew ...
Photograph
Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
In flight view of helicopters and military stores from inside a helicopter (looking past a crew member manning a MAG 58 general purpose machine gun) as it hovers above the harbour foreshore.P01735.157
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In flight view of HMAS Tobruk from inside a helicopter (looking past a crew member manning a MAG ...
Photograph
Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
In flight view of HMAS Tobruk from inside a helicopter (looking past a crew member manning a MAG 58 general purpose machine gun) as it hovers above the harbour.P01735.154
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In flight view of HMAS Tobruk from inside a helicopter (looking past a crew member manning a MAG ...
Photograph
Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
In flight view of HMAS Tobruk from inside a helicopter (looking past a crew member manning a MAG 58 general purpose machine gun) as it hovers above the harbour.P01735.155
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In flight view of tent lines on the harbour foreshore from a helicopter (looking past a crew ...
Photograph
Maker: Gittoes, George Noel
In flight view of tent lines on the harbour foreshore from a helicopter (looking past a crew member manning a MAG 58 general purpose machine gun).P01735.156
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Jackson, Harry Melville (Sergeant, b.1893 - d.1916)
Private Record
Maker: Jackson, Harry Melville
Collection relating to the service of 1766 Sergeant Harry Melville Jackson, 13 Battalion, Australia, Egypt, Gallipoli, France, 1915-1916. Collection consists of letters sent by Harry Jackson to his m...1DRL/0379
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Jill Morrison reads an account of an interview she conducted with 743A Private George Ferrier about his experiences with the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion during the First World War
Sound
Maker: Ferrier, George Morrison, Jill Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office
Jill Morrison reads an account of an interview she conducted with 743A Private George Ferrier about his experiences with the 3rd Machine Gun Battalion during the First World War Interview covered: ea...S02042
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John Arnold Warr as the Lieutenant Colonel Commanding Officer 5 RAR interviewed by Greg Swanborough for 'The sharp end'
Film
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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Korean PPSh 41 Sub-machine gun : Lance Corporal G C Ralston, 1 Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment
Technology
Maker: State Arsenal
PPSh 41 Sub-machine gun complete with drum magazine. There is no sling or cleaning accessories. '1943' is marked at the base of the barrel jacket just in front of the ejection port and '69 42' on the ...REL34594.001
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Lance Corporal William (Bill) C. Gamble, 2nd Machine Gun Company, interviewed about his experiences during the First World War
Sound
Maker: Gamble, William C 'Bill' Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office Gamble, William C 'Bill'
Discusses: early life; prewar employment; enlisted in AIF August 1916; impressions of France; gassed; training at Gas School; mates; shelling of Corbie Town Hall; Somme; relationships with British sol...S02044
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Lewis Mk 1 Machine Gun Bolt Assembly: 27 Battalion AIF
Technology
Maker: Birmingham Small Arms Co Ltd
Standard First World War issued Lewis Mk 1 Machine Gun. The barrel jacket has a large hole caused by an artillery fragmentation splinter and has a worn hand painted inscription detailing the history ...REL/02766.001
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LMG [Light Machine Gun] post, AMF [Australian Military Force] post
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
A rough sketch of four soldiers in shorts sandbagging a Light Machine Gun implacement.ART28378.016
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Machine gun 7.62mm: operation and cycle of functioning
Film
Maker: United States Army
United States Army Training Film TF9-2971 on the 7.62mm M-60 general purpose machine gun. Demonstration of the operation of the weapon by a two man team. Method of loading, sighting and barrel changes...F03732
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Machine-gunner, Nui Dat, Vietnam
Art
Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
An Australian from 7 Battalion Royal Australian Regiment in Nui Dat, Vietnam, lying on the ground holding his machine gun ready to fire.ART40623
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Mad Mike again! (Sergeant Michael Coleridge)
Art
Maker: Fletcher, Bruce
Portrait of 4410230 Sergeant Michael 'Mad Mike' Coleridge, Vung Tau, Vietnam. Fletcher has painted Coleridge, an Army Public Relations photographer, crouched in the grass with a Bell and Howell Filmo ...ART28506
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Martin upper turret basic type: operation and servicing (Airplane turrets)
Film
Maker: Training Film Production Laboratory Wright Field
Official United States Army Airforces training film produced by the Training Film Production Laboratory Wright Field. While this film deals specifically with Martin Turret type A-3B it also covers in ...F02326
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Maxim MG08 Heavy Machine Gun : Lieutenant W H King, 2 Light Horse Regiment, AIF
Technology
Maxim MG08 Heavy Machine Gun. Receiver top stamped MG08 and the serial number. Fusee cover engraved DEUTSCHE WAFFEN BERLIN 1917 MUNITIONS FABRIKEN. The barrel jacket is painted dark green. It is missi...RELAWM11000
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Maxim MG08/15 Light Machine Gun : 6 Battalion AIF, Strazeele
Technology
German Maschinengewehr 08/15 Light Machine Gun. This was a water cooled, fully automatic weapon, firing a belt-fed 7.92mm caliber rimless round at up to 450 rounds per minute. It worked on the shor...RELAWM11017.001
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McConnell, James (Private, b.1881 - d.1955)
Private Record
Maker: McConnell, James
Collection relating to the First World War service of 693 Private James McConnell, 57 Infantry Battalion and 5 Machine Gun Battalion, Australia, Sierra Leone, France, Belgium, United Kingdom, at sea, ...AWM2016.638.1
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20mm cannon
Film
An RAAF training film on the 20mm Hispano Cannon of the type mounted on the Supermarine Spitfire. The film covers the examination of the external parts, the barrel assembly, stripping the cannon, remo...F02499
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75mm Japanese gun
Art
Maker: Belcher, Douglas Leonard
A sketch of a Japanese 75mm gun found in New Guinea. Ammunition can be seen lying stacked on the ground to the left. Sergeant Belcher, Royal Australian Army Medical Corps attached to Royal Australia...ART28235
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MP40 Submachine Gun
Technology
Maker: Steyr Daimler Puch AG
The MP40 submachine gun is a blowback operated weapon that fires from an open bolt. It fires in the full automatic role only. The weapon has a blued finish. The bolt system has a telescoping return s...RELAWM20724
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MP40 Submachine Gun
Technology
The MP40 submachine gun is a blowback operated weapon that fires from an open bolt. It fires in the full automatic role only. The weapon has a blued finish.The bolt system has a telescoping return sp...REL24838
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MP38 Submachine Gun
Technology
Maker: Erma
MP38 Submachine Gun. Blued metal construction receiver with a ribbed top cover and a two piece bolt mechanism. The stock and trigger box are a pressed alloy construction and have a green protective co...REL/02355
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MP40 Submachine Gun
Technology
The MP40 submachine gun is a blowback operated weapon that fires from an open bolt. It fires in the full automatic role only. The weapon has a blued finish.The bolt system has a telescoping return sp...REL27121
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MP40 Submachine Gun
Technology
Maker: Steyr Daimler Puch AG
The MP40 submachine gun is a blowback operated weapon that fires from an open bolt. It fires in the full automatic role only. The weapon has a blued finish. The bolt system has a telescoping return s...RELAWM31057
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Mr L.H. Barnard, Labor Deputy Leader visits Australian Task Force in Vietnam. DPR/TV/625
Film
Mr L H Barnard, Deputy Leader of the Australian Parliamentary Labour Party, made a brief visit to the Australian Task Force base at Nui Dat. He watched members of 'Bravo' Company as they tested weapo...F10150
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Mr L H Barnard visits Australian Task Force troops DPR/TV/625
Film
Maker: Coleridge, Michael
Since their arrival in South Vietnam six weeks ago, the 7th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment, has been constantly patrolling the tactical area of responsibility of the Australian Task Force ...F03882
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M3 Submachine Gun : Republic of Korea Forces
Technology
Cardboard box covered with greased tropical proof paper, containing a disassembled M3 submachine gun. Each part is individually wrapped. The parts are the receiver, barrel, butt, magazine, magazine f...REL/14472
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New and destroyed bridge, Peronne
Art
Maker: McCubbin, Louis Frederick
Watercolour sketch depicting the destroyed bridge at Peronne in the foreground and the new bridge in the background. McCubbin was in Peronne in September 1918. Peronne is near the Somme battlefield a...ART03101
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New defensive weapons system for helicopters
Film
RAAF officers test-fire a new defensive weapons system for an Iroquois helicopter. The weapon consists of twin M60 machine guns mounted on a monopod with 400 round magazines. It was designed by Flight...F02723
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Nixon Smith, John R (Private, 31st Bn b.1894 - d.1918)
Private Record
Collection relating to the First World War Service of 4815a Private John Richard Nixon-Smith, 31 Battalion, France, 1918. Wallet 1 of 1 - Wallet contains letters from Nixon-Smith to his father, and m...2DRL/0271
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No 1 gun (possibly Basilisk Battery), Port Moresby
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
Naval gun and predictor at lookout; tree and washing on line in background. This drawing is from a series of eighteen pencil and watercolour sketches of military installations requiring camouflage in ...ART91574
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Nordenfelt Five Barrel Machine Gun : Fort Largs, South Australia
Technology
Nordenfelt Five Barrel Machine Gun. Brass box section receiver stamped at the rear NORDENFELT over the serial number and 1889. Five air cooled barrels in line on a steel chassis cradle. The left hand ...RELAWM07327
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Nordenfelt gun in action: a sketch on the detached squadron
Art
Maker: after Julian Rossi Ashton Australasian Sketcher
An nordenfelt gun on deck of a colonial ship is being operated by two sailors. One sailor is to pull the trigger and fire the gun, while the other is to operate a lever allowing the bullets to drop i...ART50170
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Nordenfelt Mark 1 Ten Barrel Machine Gun : Victorian Nordenfelt Battery
Technology
Nordenfelt Mark I Ten Barrel Machine Gun. Brass box section receiver stamped at the rear NORDENFELT over the serial number. Ten air cooled barrels in line on a steel chassis cradle. The rear sights ar...REL/05627
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Not titled [Soldier holding a rifle]
Art
Maker: Hinder, Frank
A soldier wearing a protective helmt, and holding a machine gun.ART29324
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Operational sounds of United States military aircraft, armour and weapons used during the war in Vietnam, 1962-1972
Sound
Maker: Unknown
1. jet fighters passing overhead and delivering ordnance to the ground; bombs exploding; small arms and machine gun fire; rifle shots; 2. armoured vehicles manoeuvring; petrol-powered armoured vehicle...S03297
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Operation Smithfield DPR/TV/423 [Long Tan]
Film
Maker: Cunneen, William James
In Vietnam, the battle of Nui Dat [sic.] (Long Tan) in which soldiers of Delta Company of the Sixth Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, fought an epic stand against a hard core communist battalion, ...F03784
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Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. August 1970. Even at rest a patrol must maintain constant ...
Photograph
Maker: Ward, Peter Anthony
Phuoc Tuy Province, South Vietnam. August 1970. Even at rest a patrol must maintain constant vigilance. Machine gunner Private Michael Howard of Mt Gravatt, Qld, is a soldier of A Company, 8th Battali...WAR/70/0653/VN
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PPSh 41 Drum Magazine
Technology
PPSH-41 Soviet Sub-Machine Gun drum magazine with a capacity to take 71 rounds of ammunition and has various inspection stamps. It is made from pressed steel with feed lips on the top and has spring l...REL/08345
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Private Clive McKenzie, 5th Battalion, interviewed about his experiences during the First World War
Sound
Maker: McKenzie, Clive Unknown Department of Veterans' Affairs, Victorian State Office
Discusses: early life; enlistment March 1916; family's reaction to enlistment; impressions of France; extreme cold; lack of rations in front line; Albert and meeting a civilian girl; wounded at Bullec...S02056
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Private Kenneth Colbung, Royal Australian Infantry Corp, interviewed by Bill Bunbury about his service in the Korean War.
Sound
Maker: Colbung, Ken Bunbury, Bill Colbung, Ken
Collection of oral history interviews on the Korean War recorded by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Radio National 'Hindsight' for the program 'Korea, 1950-1953, The Forgotten War'.S01906
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RAAF gunship demonstration (RAAF TV 131)
Film
RAAF gunship demonstration (RAAF TV 131) Helicopter gunships of No. 9 Squadron RAAF based at Vung Tau South Vietnam, gave newly-arrived troops of 8 RAR a demonstration of their strike potential and ca...F02771
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RAAF gunships in Vietnam
Film
Features an Iroquois converted to a gunship. Shows armourers arming the helicopter, taking off, in flight, air to air shots, target area and guns firing. The converted Iroquois is equipped with two 7....F02752
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RAAF squadrons in Vietnam [No 35 Squadron and No 9 Squadron RAAF]
Film
1. RAAF Caribou transport aircraft of No. 35 Squadron in hangar being serviced by ground crew. Caribou on tarmac loaded with supplies. U.S. air traffic controller in control tower. Air to air shot of ...F03310
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Radio checking on a General Grant tank
Art
Maker: Browning, George Julian
Depicts a radio technician inspecting the wiring of a short range aerial adaptor on the turret of the tank. The picture shows the 37mm machine gun mounted side by side in the turret.ART25313
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6 RAR in Vietnam action DPR/TV/571
Film
Maker: Coleridge, Michael
At dawn in Vietnam, 16 American helicopters arrived at the Australian Task Force base airstrip to fly out troops of 6th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment on a search and destroy operation. Army...F03848
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6 RAR in Vietnam action DPR/TV/571
Film
Maker: Coleridge, Michael
6 Battalion RAR troops were transported from the Australian Task Force base airstrip by American 'Iroquois' helicopters to an area on a search and destroy operation. It took several round trips to fl...F10133
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5 RAR in Vietnam on familiarisation trip to Dong Nai River DPR/TV/373
Film
Maker: Cunneen, William James
Twenty members of the advanced party of 5 RAR were taken on a familiarisation trip in 1 RAR Tactical Area of Responsibility. The aim was to introduce the men to woking with the M113 Armoured personnel...F03766
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[7 RAR in Vietnam 1967-1968] / Thomas E. Hunt
Film
Maker: Hunt, Thomas Edward
7 RAR in Vietnam 1967-1968. Activities at Nui Dat base training and target practice. Visiting entertainers stage a show. A jungle patrol. Flight in a Iroquois helicopter. Chinook helicopter lands...F03523
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103rd Field Bty RAA training on American 155mm Self propelled gun. DPR/TV/510
Film
The largest weapons around the Australian Task Force area at Nui Dat are American 155mm self propelled guns. Six of them which form a battery are part of the task force artillery support and come und...F10116
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Reardon, Francis (Private, b.1892 - d.1922)
Private Record
Maker: Reardon, Francis
Collection relating to the First World War service of 251 Private Francis (Frank) Reardon, 3rd Machine Gun Battalion, Australian Infantry Force. Collection consists of a well detailed letter written b...PR04662
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Re-arming a fighter
Film
Maker: Brent Productions
Official RAF training film produced by Brent Productions. Shows the quick turn around of fighters engaged with the enemy. The work of the ground crew and how each person performing his respective job ...F02377