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Activities in No 9 POW Camp New Britain
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Maker: Dolan, Samuel Murray
Situated approximately twenty miles outside Rabaul, No 9 Group Camp holds some 10,000 Japanese POW. Scenes depict activities followed by the prisoners; administration inside the compound area is the r...F07425
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Activities of 1 Australian Port Construction Company, RAE at Balikpapan
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Maker: O'Halloran, John Frederick M
During operation Oboe 2 the two approaches to the shipping wharf, 400 yards offshore, were destroyed. A temporary approach was made from welded steel pontoons. Film shows construction of a new wooden ...F07275
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Activities of 2 Australian Prisoner of War Reception Group & scenes and inspection at Changi POW camp by Lord Louis Mountbatten
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Formation, embarkation and arrival of 2 Australian Prisoners of War (POW) Group at Singapore, whose task it was to receive and assist released prisoners of war: mainly 8th Division personnel. Scenes d...F07336
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A day with the Garrison Engineer and Staff, Tura, Egypt 1941-42
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Maker: Unknown
This item is composed of activities of unidentified British and New Zealand engineer units in the North African Campaign. The first part deals with the advance into Libya and then "A day with the Garr...F10035
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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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Advance on Sanananda
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Coverage of action in Sanananda area. Most of this item being photographed with the 2/9th Battalion AIF. Identified personnel: C Bottomley, Department of Information still photographer. H. Black YMCA ...F01848
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AIF return from Malaya
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
AIF return from Malaya after capitulation of Japan. A general coverage of troops relaxing and playing sport on board troopship. Some shots of a Bofors gun and crew and troops disembarking from troopsh...F01172
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Allied prisoners of war repatriated from Japan
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Maker: Unknown
Australian and allied POW at Yokohama preparing for repatriation and shots of Australian prisoners of war (POW) on the American hospital ship 'Benevolence'. The footage is low contrast, yet there are ...F01441
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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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Anzacs take Viet Cong hospital DPR/TV/1225
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Maker: Ward, Peter Anthony
ANZAC soldiers taking part in Operation Marsden have uncovered a large enemy hospital in the May Tao mountains, in north-eastern Phuoc Tuy Province. As soon as the news of the hospital reaches the hea...F04413
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A 1 RAR operation in Vietnam operation 'Kick-off'. DPR/TV/336
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Operation "Kick off" was a multi-battalion search and destroy operation with United States and South Vietnamese units. The Australians were transported to the Plain of Reeds by armoured personnel carr...F10095
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[Arras, Bullecourt and Hindenburg Line] cuts for library
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Engineers demolishing houses. Interior of Arras Cathedral. German batteries shell Allied positions. Shelling of a recently captured village. German shells bursting in Arras and the effect. Austra...F00076
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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 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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Attack repulsed at Australian base DPR/TV/842
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Maker: Errington, William Alexander (Bill)
Australian troops this week repulsed North Vietnamese regular soldiers who attacked the Australian Task Force forward Fire Support Base (FSB) Coral in north west Bien Hoa province, about twenty five m...F04671
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Aussies in Germany, RAAF in Brussels
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Australian airman in Germany; Australian and Allied POW in Stalag 357 and Stalag II B and in United Kingdom; RAAF vs BLA rugby, Brussels. Australian airmen with No 175 RAF Hawker Typhoon Squadron in G...F01274
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25 Australian Infantry Battalion in action Slater's Knoll
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
Early in the morning of 5th April, in South Bougainville, a sizeable enemy force attacked the HQ 25th Australian Infantry Battalion and a platoon of "C" Company. Sixty men were cut off from their comm...F07191
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Australian paratroops at Labuan and Singapore
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Maker: Nicholson, George Harvey
The advance detachment of 1 Australian Paratroop Battalion, AIF, approximately one hundred and twenty men, were flown to Labuan from Cairns, QLD, in preparation for being called to Singapore. It was t...F07324
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Australian POW at 10 Cycle Camp, Batavia
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Scenes of Australian Army, Navy and Air Force personnel at 10 Cycle Camp. All these POWs were flown back to Singapore. Sapper Newman, 8 Australian Division Engineers, showing his well patched slouch h...F07342
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Australian POW's return to England
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Lancaster bombers of No 622 Sqn RAF parked on airfield. Lancaster of No 138 Sqn RAF taxis into frame. Medium shot of servicemen (POWs?) deplaning and gathering near aircraft to pose for camera. Lancas...F02635
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A war story
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Maker: National Film Board of Canada
Documentary drama based on the diaries of Canadian doctor, Ben Wheeler, during internment in a Japanese prison camp.F03421
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2/43 Battalion AIF Borneo 1945
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Maker: Jones, Peter Hesketh Whitlock
Opens with a close up of a sign show the word Beaufort written in English and Chinese. An Australian soldier walks up to a woman with a child both carrying open umbrellas and points to the camera. Ano...F00420
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Battle of Egypt
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Australian and British troops in the Alamein area; Infantry, Artillery, Cavalry. VX46983 Brigadier Raymond Walter Tovell and 225 (NX73) Major Charles Hector Finlay of 26 Australian Infantry Brigade; G...F01223
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Binh Ba battle DPR/TV/1114
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Maker: Bellis, Christopher John
Australian and South Vietnamese soldiers joined in a major action last weekend to clear an estimated 90 enemy from the village of Binh Ba, five miles north of the 1st Australian Task Force base at Nui...F04342
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5 Bn RAR capture V.C. dominated village DPR/TV/419
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Troops of the 5th Battalion, RAR, moved in at night to surround a Viet Cong dominated village. The troops tied themselves together with ropes to avoid losing contact during the night manoeuvres. At ...F10107
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Brigadier P J Greville CBE (Rtd) as Officer Commanding Assault Pioneer Platoon 1st Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment (1 RAR) and a prisoner of war, Korea 1952-1953, interviewed by Colonel D A Chinn MBE (Rtd)
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Maker: Makela, Esa Chinn, David Alexander
A video interview with Brigadier P J Greville CBE conducted at the Australian War Memorial. Brigadier Greville speaks of his service background and experience, as well as training; the role of the Ass...F04890
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Captured Viet Cong and weapons DPR/TV/858
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Maker: Crothers, Richard William
Continuation of coverage of the aftermath of the North Vietnamese attack on the Australian Fire Support Base Balmoral. See also F04204 3 RAR action in Vietnam DPR/TV/853 & 855.F04206
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Catalina taking officers and supplies to Kuching POW camp
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Maker: Rainsford, Keith Carr
On 7 September 1945, a Catalina aircraft, loaded with medical supplies and carrying three officers left Labuan Airstrip for Kuching POW Camp. The officers were VX40155 Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Walker...F07315
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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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Civilian internees and dockyards, Singapore
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Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
General shots of civilian internees wandering around after release from Japanese internment camps. A few shots of released Australian POW. Allister Greig of Western Australia, artist, displays some of...F01438
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Commemoration service Rabaul
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Maker: Dolan, Samuel Murray
During May 1942, 800 Allied prisoners of war and internees embarked on the vessel Montevideo Maru at Rabaul for shipment to Japan; she was subsequently sunk en route. On 23 January 1946, four years af...F07419
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[Compilation of post Second World War footage showing repatriation of allied prisoners of war in South East Asia and captured Japanese]
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Compilation of post Second World War footage showing repatriation of allied prisoners of war in South East Asia and captured Japanese, including scenes of injured and emasciated POWs, crowd scenes of ...F03401
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Construction of camps in the Gazelle Peninsula by Japanese troops
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Maker: Thain, Ernest Robertson
Japanese troops were to be concentrated in camps built in the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain; when completed these camps were capable of holding some one hundred and thirty thousand Japanese troops. C...F07363
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Departure of POW by Catalina flying boat for Darwin
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Maker: Cuffley, Leighton Edward
To date, some fifteen thousand ex POW have been processed by 3 Australian POW Reception Group. Each man undergoes a medical and dental examination and is issued with clothing, equipment and new payboo...F07373
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Desert victory
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Maker: Macdonald, David Army Film and Photographic Unit RAF Film Production Unit
The 8th Army's push against and the driving back of Rommel through the desert. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1943.F01308
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8 Division POW on board HMT Highland Brigade
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Maker: McLeish, N
Scenes taken on board HMT Highland Brigade of men of 8 Division and civilians who had been prisoners of the Japanese for some three and a half years, during the trip from Singapore to Fremantle, WA. T...F07340
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Drive against the Japanese up the Markham and Ramu valleys
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Maker: Driver, Roy
General coverage of the drive against the Japanese up the Ramu and Markham River valleys, New Guinea. Shows the every day activities of the troops. Identified personnel: Church of England Padre H No...F01853
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Dumping of Japanese ammunition in Blanche Bay, Rabaul
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Maker: Thain, Ernest Robertson
Japanese troops, under the direction of Australian forces, dump ammunition into Blanche Bay in accordance with the surrender terms. Film shows hand grenades, 4.5 shells, one hundred pound bombs and ....F07357
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[Eastern Front, Monte Cassino and Luftwaffe night raids on London, 1944] (Die Deutsche Wochenshau) = (The German newsreel)
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Maker: Die Deutsche Wochenschau
German newsreel circa early 1944. Items covered: 1. Winter on the Eastern front, Stug III Assault gun, Panzer Grenadiers, PzKpfW VI Tiger tanks, Soviet POWs, land mine clearance, knocked out Soviet T-...F01995
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Eichelberger presents money belt to natives
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Maker: Driver, Roy
Studies of Japanese Prisoners of War (POWs), a group of Eurasian women and children in European clothes. Lieutenant-General Eichelberger presents money belt to Saluver Librak.F01870
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El Alamein area, Mr Casey's visit to El Alamein, El Alamein Railway Station, 450 Squadron in the Western Desert
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Maker: Military History Section
Various scenes of battlefield with wrecked tanks and vehicles in desert country near the Hills of Jesus. Three soldiers examine captured Italian 20mm Breda gun. Valentine tank at Tank HQ. Men of the 2...F07016
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El Alamein, armoured cars, anti aircraft gunners, prisoners, hospital train
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Maker: Military History Section
El Alamein area, 1942. Armoured cars in desert country. Anti aircraft gun and crew. Men cooking meal over a petrol stove. Signals unit laying out telephone cable from utility. Group of soldiers run to...F07021
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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 first Australian POW by sea from Singapore
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Maker: Nicholson, George Harvey
Scenes on Singapore wharf as the first Australian prisoner of war (POW) from Changi and other Singapore POW Camps arrive to embark on HMAS Manunda, a Hospital Ship, to be taken to Australia. Approxima...F07322
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Exhibition of Ju Ken Jitsu by Japanese prisoners of war
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Maker: Barrett, Reginald Mervyn (Reg)
At Timbali Surrender Camp, Labuan, Japanese prisoners gave a demonstration of bayonet fighting. The contestants are dressed in thickly padded suits, head piece with wire mesh front and thick gloves. W...F07408
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[Extracts from German newsreels: Home front and Arnhem] (Die Deutsche Wochenschau 41/42 1944 Wpr) = (The German newsreel 41/42 1944 Wpr)
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Maker: Die Deutsche Wochenschau
German newsreel c September 1944. German language commentary. Items covered: 1. Hitler Youth members of the Landienst (land army) learn agriculture and animal husbandry as part of a 10 year project fo...F01964
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[Extracts from Japanese newsreels covering occupied Netherlands East Indies, Solomons campaign, Burma and occupied Singapore] (Dai Toa Nyusu No. 2 = Greater East Asia News No. 2)
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Maker: Nippon Eigasha
Dai Toa Nyusu (Greater East Asia News) produced by Nippon Eigasha (Japanese Film Company) for screening in Japanese occupied Netherlands East Indies. Topics covered are; 1. Japanese Aichi Navy Type 0 ...F06922
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Fall of Bardia 1940
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
The advance of the 2nd AIF from Salum to Bardia with shots of infantry advancing and Australian and British Artillery Bombardment. Italian soldiers surrendering, abandoned Italian equipment and enemy ...F01060
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Fall of Corregidor in Manila Bay 7th May (Nippon News 102)
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Maker: Nippon Eigasha Nippon News
Extract from Nippon News newsreel covering the United States surrender at Corregidor, Manila Bay, Philippines. Japanese Navy and Army officers moving away from camera along mountain track. Officers st...F06814
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[Federated Malay States Volunteer Force] / William Charles Barton
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Maker: Barton, William Charles
Federated Malay States Volunteer Force (FMSVF). Private William Charles Barton served with "D" Company Armoured Car Section Ipoh Division 1 December 1941 to 14 April 1946. He was taken as a prisoner o...F03495
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Fighting in Flanders
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank) Wilkins, George Hubert
This film deals with the participation of the Australian troops in the third battle of Ypres during the autumn of 1917. Scenes include Australians preparing for the attack; being reviewed by Sir Doug...F00056
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First Australians leaving Singapore
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Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
Released Australian prisoners of war at Kallang airfield, Singapore waiting for aircraft to depart for Australia. Japanese soldiers pushing disabled transport through the streets of Singapore; other J...F01683
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Garry Gleadhill: home movies HMAS Perth Vietnam 1971
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Maker: Gleadhill, Garry Russell
The aircraft leaving USS Ranger were flying to Laos on bombing missions against the North Vietnamese Army (NVA). The footage was taken in early to mid March 1971. Movies of both carriers Ranger and Ki...F11485
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General scenes of damaged town of Jesselton and views inside Japanese internment camp.
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Maker: Barrett, Reginald Mervyn (Reg)
Jesselton is the site of the largest concentration of Japanese POWs in Borneo. Many Japanese women and children are interned in a special camp. Japanese POW are employed in clearing the damaged town. ...F07409
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[German home front, Hitler and Mussolini, Hans-Ulrich Rudel, German convoy under air attack and Waffen SS on the Eastern front, circa 1944] (Die Deutsche Wochenschau No. 714) = (The German newsreel No. 714)
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Maker: Die Deutsche Wochenschau
German newsreel circa 1944. German language commentary. Items covered: 1. Nazi leaders at May Day celebrations. 2. A womens fashion parade. 3. Bicycle race in Berlin. 4. Youths of the Arbeitdienst in ...F01972
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Glimpses of Army days by George French
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Maker: French, George
George French's film of his service as a Sergeant with 8 Garrison Battalion Newcastle Defence and later as an officer with Australian Water Transport and British Borneo Civil Affairs Unit (BBCAU). Ope...F00277
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[Hainan Island, China, Sarawak and North Borneo 1946- 1947 and 1951]
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Maker: Jackson, Henry Walter Samuel
Lieutenant Colonel Harold Jackson was Contact Officer (rank at the time was Major) in 3 Australian Prisoner of War Contact and Enquiry Unit and carried out the release and repatriation of POW on Haina...F03316
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[Handling of a Viet Cong POW in accordance with the Geneva Convention]
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Maker: Defence Public Relations (DPR)
Covers the treatment of a Viet Cong guerilla captured by 'B' Coy 7 RAR. Scenes include: Collection of the prisoner by Australian Military Police; the prisoners medical examination; processing the pri...F03572
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Handling POWs
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This British Army training film has been acted. It shows basic method of handling Prisoners of War (POW) by the soldier in the field unit before they are handed over to the intelligence branch.F01901
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His Highness the Rajah of Sarawak, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke's Birthday celebrations, Kuching & scenes in 9 Division released POW camp & visit of Lady Mountbatten to 2/1 Australian Casualty Clearing Station.
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Maker: Rainsford, Keith Carr
March past of Kuching Force and twenty one gun salute for the Rajah of Sarawak's birthday. Activities at 9 Division released POW and Internee camp, Labuan Island. Medical examinations at 2/1 Australia...F07372
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[HMAS Kanimbla and HMAS Hobart] / Lieutenant Commander B.I. Freeman
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Maker: Freeman, Bruce Irving
Reel 1. The armed merchant cruiser HMAS Kanimbla's part in an operation by "B" Force under command of Captain W.L.G. Adams CB, OBE, RN to capture German and Italian merchant ships at Bandar Shapur, Ir...F03343
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HMAS Voyager in the Mediterranean, 1940
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Maker: Hollis, John
HMAS Voyager and crew in the Mediterranean, circa mid 1940. Alexandria or Cairo, car trip through the city. Various scenes of parks, buildings etc. At sea, long shot of a destroyer underway at speed. ...F04798
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HMS Formidable and HMS Speaker
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Australian soldiers arrived at South Harbour, Manila, by trucks from the 8th Australian Prisoner of War Reception Camp and were taken out to the Royal Navy aircraft carriers HMS Formidable and HMS Spe...F01626
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Homeward journey
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Maker: Thompson, Geoffrey
This is a National Films Council presentation using material from film No F02081, Flying Nurses (except 12 scenes). The emphasis in this version is more on wounded being returned to Australia than the...F01251
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Indian troops in POW camp Rabaul
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Maker: Thain, Ernest Robertson
During their imprisonment by the Japanese, these Indian troops were treated very badly. Food and medical supplies were insufficient and raids had to be made on Japanese dumps to fill the gaps in the r...F07354
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In enemy hands
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A short film explaining how the Red Cross supplies comforts to allied prisoners of war. A female nurse introduces the film and a male voice over explains aims and processes of the organisation. Scenes...F01369
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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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Inspection by HQ 6 Australian Division officers of Japanese hospital on Muschu Island
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Maker: Eastman, David Tennant Gaery
On 1 October 1945, Lieutenant General Yoshihara, Chief of the General Staff, 18 Japanese Army and Commander of the Japanese compound on Muschu was ordered to improve the hospital site, lay paths and g...F07376
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Interrogation of enemy airmen
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Maker: First Motion Picture Film Unit Army Air Forces
Official War Department training film TF-1.3326 produced by the First Motion Picture Film Unit Army Air Forces. Demonstrates psychological approaches, methods and interrogation techniques employed by ...F02373
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Interrogation of suspected war criminals
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Maker: Eastman, David Tennant Gaery
On 19 October 1945, at HQ 6 Australian Division, began the preliminary interrogation of suspected or accused Japanese war criminals. The first Japanese to be questioned is a Lieutenant Tazaki who is a...F07377
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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 Tom Piper
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Maker: Barnes, Stephen
Thomas Piper joined the RNAS at the start of the 1914-1918 war in August 1914. He joined HMS Ark Royal & flew on bombing raids over Gallipoli and attacked the German cruisers "Breslau" and "Goeben". C...F03548
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Invasion of Hollandia
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
On 22 Apr 1944 Task Force 'Reckless', assisted by aircraft of TF58 and gunfire of United States and Australian naval vessels, invaded Dutch New Guinea in an amphibious operation and began a pincers mo...F01731
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Italian prisoners at Haifa
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Italian prisoners board a train in Haifa under the watchful eyes of Australian soldiers.F01237
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Japanese aircraft carrier Katsuragi at Rabaul
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Maker: Dolan, Samuel Murray
On the evening of 30 January 1946, a Japanese 22,000 ton aircraft carrier Katsuragi carrying 5,000 Japanese troops from Fauro to Japan, called at Rabaul for fuel and water. Most of the troops were in ...F07420
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Japanese patrol in Tarakan
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Maker: Cuffley, Leighton Edward
After the cessation of hostilities and leaflets had been dropped on the remaining Japanese who were still in the hilly country of Tarakan, Japanese prisoners were asked to go out on patrols to bring i...F07369
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Japanese POW & internees embark on the Daikai Maru for repatriation
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Maker: Scale, Clement Stewart
On 2 March 1946, 2,500 Japanese POW and internees embarked on the first Japanese vessel to use Sydney Harbour since the cessation of hostilities. The prisoners arrived at No 1 Wharf, Balmain, NSW, by ...F07436
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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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Japanese prisoner of war camp Morotai
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Maker: Nicholson, George Harvey
Amongst the three hundred thirty five Japanese prisoners held at Morotai are about one hundred who are listed as war criminals. These men are put to heavy work and treated differently from the remaind...F07389
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Japanese prisoners arrive at Rabaul
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Maker: Dolan, Samuel Murray
Under the supervision of Provost Marshal, NX77304 (N5002) Colonel Keith Charles Fleming Harris, Land Headquarters, the first batch of Japanese war criminals were placed in the POW compound at Rabaul. ...F07417
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Japanese prisoners at Torokina
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Maker: Scale, Clement Stewart
The Japanese garrison on Nauru Island was transferred by sea to a special compound at Torokina. Daily inspection of compound was carried out by SX1442 Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Ronald Matthews, 9 Au...F07350
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Japanese prisoners surrender
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Maker: Driver, Roy
Shots taken from American gunboat with loud speakers fitted to bow as it cruises along jungle foreshore calling on Japanese to surrender. Japanese on shore waving white flags and in water wading out t...F01628
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Japanese repatriation centre Ujina, Japan
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Maker: Cartledge, Ronald Selby
For several months a detachment of Australian soldiers have been supervising the repatriation of Japanese POWs at Ujina, port of Hiroshima. Inspection of belongings, confiscation of prohibited article...F07467
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Kuching Hospital & POWs embark for Australia
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Maker: Rainsford, Keith Carr
Civilian internees and prisoners of war were flown from Kuching to Labuan at the start of their journey home after being liberated from POW camp, Kuching. Several Australian and British POW received t...F07330
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Kuching POW Camp
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Maker: Rainsford, Keith Carr
Scenes taken at POW camp, Kuching, where some one thousand three hundred people, British, Australian troops and civilians and some Roman Catholic priests had gathered. Parade for visit of 351001 (VX7)...F07331
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Lancaster
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Video narration with Harold Everard who was an engineer with No. 463 Squadron RAAF. Mr Evans tells of his experiences serving with 463 Squadron and particulary the 26th raid on Schweinfurt, Germany on...F04177
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Leaflets on Ambonia
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
A RAAF Liberator aircraft flew over the Ambonia area where a large number of Australian prisoners of war held by the Japanese. The pamphlets were prepared by FELO (Far East Liaison Office) to inform t...F01625
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Liberated Indian troops
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
Liberated troops of 1st Indian Anti-Aircraft Regiment are shown Allied aircraft at Bougainville, New Guinea. RAAF pilot officer explains armour on a Boomerang aircraft of 5 Squadron RAAF (Sqn Code BF)...F07182
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Liberation of English naval POW & occupation of Macassar
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Maker: O'Halloran, John Frederick M
On 1 October 1945, troops of 2/14 Australian Infantry Battalion were transported from Balikpapan in HMAS Gascoyne and HMAS Burdekin to occupy Macassar. Prior to this, however, on 27 September 1945, tr...F07367
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Life of Turkish prisoners
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Columns of Turkish prisoners are escorted by British and Indian troops. These prisoners were captured at Khan Baghdadiya (on the Euphrates) 26 March 1918. There are scenes of prisoners preparing foo...F00052
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Lofoten raid
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Maker: Army Film and Photographic Unit
A Ministry of Information film produced by the Army Film Unit in collaboration with the Crown Film Unit. With an eye witness account by Lieutenant Commander Anthony Kimmins. The story of the Royal Nav...F01340
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Lutong oil refinery
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Maker: Driver, Roy
A few shots of the landing at Weston, North East Coast of Brunei Bay and soldiers scouting. Two shots of Indian prisoners of war. They were members of an engineering unit captured at Singapore and wer...F01353
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[Macksville welcomes home returned soldiers]
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Maker: Joseph, Louis
Film opens showing a street march moving towards camera. View moving towards camera showing a horseman wearing a slouch hat leading the welcome home march. Next is the Macksville brass band and flag c...F04942
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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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Movement of Japanese from Nauru to Torokina
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Maker: Rintel, David Leslie
Following the surrender of Nauru Island, Japanese prisoners were transferred by the SS River Glenelg to camps at Torokina, Bougainville.F07349
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Night move on village DPR/TV/419
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During a recent operation in Vietnam, soldiers of the 5th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, moved at night to surround a Viet Cong dominated village. The troops tied themselves together with ropes...F03801
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[North Vietnamese propaganda film, 1966]
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North Vietnamese propaganda film in Vietnamese language. Shows captured United States pilots under interrogation and one US wounded POW undergoing surgery in hospital. A speech by United States Presid...F03483
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[No. 3 Squadron RAAF in the Western Desert]
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Maker: Salter, James Charles
Western desert, North Africa circa 1941-1942, long shot of tent and parked P-40 Kittyhawk of No. 3 Squadron RAAF in background. Three shots of P-40s preparing to take off from desert airfield. Ground ...F04171
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Nurses from Rabaul in Manila on way home
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Four Australian army nurses, eleven Australian civilian nurses and one Red Cross worker in Manila on way back to Australia. They were captured at Rabaul, New Britain, held ther for six months at a Ger...F01627