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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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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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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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1. Australian built Austen gun is hard hitting 2. US carrier in spectacular sea - air battle. (News From Home. No. 24)
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Maker: News from Home
Extracts from News From Home No. 241. (1 min 38 sec) The Austen gun, an Australian adaption of the Sten, goes through its paces at Port Kembla, NSW. 2. (3 min 10 sec) An American aircraft carrier is s...F00720
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1. Chips off the Anzac block 2. Sinking of 'Yorktown' (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 41)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 41. 1. (2 min) Two thousand Victorian boy cadets learn from AIF instructors 2. (1 min 20 sec) Sinking of United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown ...F00363
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First pictures: Admiral Halsey's sweep in the China Sea (Movietone News)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Movietone News newsreel extract circa February 1945. Covers the operations of the task force of the US Navy's Third Fleet operating in the China Sea. The US task force operated in a storm that served ...F04907
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Guadalcanal: America's first offensive (Crusade in the Pacific part 7)
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Maker: March of Time Television
United States March of Time television documentary using historic combat and newsreel footage. Covers the battle of Guadalcanal and the campaign in the Solomon Islands. Shows the amphibious landing at...F04959
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Heavy units of the Royal Navy in Australia
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Maker: Thomas, Wilfrid Movietone News
Movietone newsreel item on the visit to Australia of the British Pacific Fleet just prior to action in the Okinawa campaign. Features the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious and the battleship HMS King ...F10194
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1. Marshall Islands, US Navy aerial blitz before invasion 2. Chinese shipbuilders aid allies. (News From Home No. 78)
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1. (1 min 49 sec) Softening up bombardment by US Navy aircraft from Admiral Mitscher's TF58 before the Marshall Islands invasion (Movietone News) 2. (2 min 24 sec) Chinese workmen build ships for the ...F00770
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Nazi sub seized: Navy captures sub in first boarding since 1815
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Maker: Unknown
Newsreel item on the first boarding and capture of a naval vessel by the United States Navy since 1815. An anti-submarine Task Force Group consisting of the CVE (escort carrier) USS Guadalcanal and fi...F10181
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Radio at war
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Maker: RCA (USA)
An RCA presentation on the part played by radio in modern warfare. Assembled from scenes using actors, film of manoevres and actual combat footage with a voice over to tell the story of Jim and Joe B...F03568
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Repatriation of Japanese troops from Rabaul
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Maker: Dolan, Samuel Murray
On 28th February 1946, the Japanese aircraft carrier Katsuragi arrived at Rabaul carrying 1,400 Koreans who refused to disembark to make way for 2,500 Japanese POW. After an armed escort persuaded the...F07424
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Sons of the Anzacs 1939-1945
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Maker: Dreyfus, George Bagnall, Frank N Howes, Oliver F Bowden, Barry
Remake of the film F00188 produced by the Australian Commonwealth Film Unit for the Australian War Memorial. A history of Australia in the Second World War, covering the principal campaigns and utili...F00190
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The British Pacific Fleet in action 1945: Lieutenant Reynolds at Okinawa.
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Okinawa, circa April-May 1945. A mute newsreel of the ships and aircraft of the British Pacific Fleet in action.F03631
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The War: a current information film for the Armed Services #6
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Maker: United States Army Signal Corps
Propaganda newsreel items for screening to US troops produced by the United States War Department Army Service Forces Special Division and the Army Signal Corps with the co-operation of the Air Force,...F04903
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Tokyo raid: Japanese murder of US fliers arouses nation. Allied leaders seal Italy's fate (Movietone News)
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1. One year after the event details are revealed of the raid on Tokyo by B-25 Mitchell bombers led by Colonel James Doolittle in April 1942. Revelations that some of the men captured have been execute...F03608
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United States Navy Combat Bulletin No. 5
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Maker: US Navy
1. "Air Sea Battle: surface fleet continues to batter enemy air attacks". Coverage of the Kamikaze attacks on USN TF-58 in the Okinawa campaign. Shows suicide aircraft attacking through an intense ant...F10179
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US Carrier [USS Enterprise] in epic fight for life (News From Home No. 21)
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Maker: News from Home
This film has been identified as being taken during the battle of the Eastern Solomons 24 August 1942. The majority of the film deals with the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and the three bombs that ...F00717
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1. US Navy dive bomber [Helldiver] 2. Jap planes blasted by US Navy guns 3. Diggers return home from Nazi prisons 4. Young Australian radio star entertains US troops. (News From Home No. 76)
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1. (55 sec) the new US Navy dive bomber, the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver 2. (1 min 25 sec) A Japanese attack on a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific is beaten off by the accuracy of the American gunners. T...F00768