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AANS arrive Labuan
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Maker: McInnes, Hugh
Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) Sisters of the 2/1st Casualty Clearing Station (CCS) arrived at Labuan from Morotai in a Douglas C-47 of No. 34 Sqn RAAF. They were met at the airstrip by the AD...F01695
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Activities of Peter Hemery war correspondent 1941-1945
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Maker: Hemery, Clement John Peter
[Colour] A United States Navy PT boat under tow. Aerial of USAAF C-47 No. 105. Aerial of a formation of C-47 Dakota transport aircraft. Butterfly collection. A US soldier marks drop zone white sheets ...F04638
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A day in the life of a GI at 7 mile aerodrome Port Moresby
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Maker: Hohmann, Franklin P (Frank)
Introduction: I was already in the United State Army Air Corps (USAAC) when December 7 1941 came upon us. I was by then a qualified Flight Engineer on the B17c/d, flying surface interdiction from Guat...F03478
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Aerodrome construction Darwin
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Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
General coverage of aerodrome construction. Shots of carry all scoop, mobile stone crushing plant and graders.F01794
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Air ambulance Middle East (702 RAF A.II)
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Maker: RAF Film Unit
Air evacuation of casualties at 322 Wing Casualty Air Evacuation Centre, Middle East. Stretcher cases being loaded into Douglas C-47 Dakota tranport aircraft and Bristol Bombay transport aircraft. Med...F02639
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Air supply drop Malaya
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Maker: RAAF Public Relations
RAAF transport support flight operating out of Butterworth air base, Malaya, drops food and medical supplies to Malaysian police outposts and Malaya villagers. This item shows loading of stores into C...F02739
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Air transport in New Guinea
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
At Port Moresby wharf Australian soldiers take delivery of supplies, which they re-pack and load on to C-47 Dakota transport aircraft at Ward's Aerodrome. The transport planes take off and fly in sta...F07099
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Air transport Nadzab and 25 Brigade bathing
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
Natives unload pre-fabricated girders from Dakota aircraft. Jeep being driven from an United States C-47 Dakota. Crowd of soldiers washing themselves in a creek pool. Two Australian soldiers smoking o...F07058
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ANGAU rehabilitation Bougainville
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Maker: Unknown
From Australian New Guinea Adminstrative Unit War Diaries and other records it is assumed that the film covers the general rehabilitation of Bougainvillean people as territory previously held by the J...F01247
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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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A Royal occasion (RAAF Record No.3)
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Maker: RAAF Public Relations
Newsreel produced by the Directorate of Public Relations RAAF covering the important role played by the RAAF in the 1954 Royal Tour of Australia by HM Queen Elizabeth and Prince Phillip. Tasman Sea, a...F10460
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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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Australia at war in Korea (Cinesound News No. 983)
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Maker: Thompson, Geoffrey Whiteman, Bede Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel circa 1950 covering operations of No. 77 Squadron RAAF. Item opens with shots of the two cameramen, G. Thompson and B. Whiteman. Scenes of No. 77 Squadron RAAF at Iwakuni Southern H...F01991
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2/7 Australian General Hospital at Lae 1944
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Maker: Unknown
Lae, New Guinea, 1944. Camera pans of mountain ranges. USAAF Douglas C-54 cargo aircraft. Close up shot of ground crew working on the engine of a C-54 at Lae airstrip. Pan of airstrip showing parked U...F10310
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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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Australians advance in New Guinea
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Ioribaiwa Ridge, New Guinea, Australians advance and take first Japanese prisoners. Hauling 25 pounder guns on Kokoda Track, C-47 Dakota aircraft drop supplies, Corporal John Bromwich, Davis Cup tenni...F00820
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[2 Battalion Parachute Regiment, British Army training jump pre-Arnhem operation]
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Maker: Lewis, Colman Michael
[2 Battalion Parachute Regiment, British Army training jump pre-Arnhem operation]F03357
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Biscuit bomber: the story of dropping (Combat Film Report No. 425)
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The history of aerial supply dropping in the SWPA Shows the problems associated with the dropping of supplies to forward troops by aeroplane. Identified personnel: Major Beck 54th Troop Carrier Wing, ...F01897
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Blamey farewells troops
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
These pictures were requested by the GOC, Sir Thomas Blamey to be added to a special film made up of Parer's and Bagnall's. Shots taken show Sir Thomas Blamey and an unidentified Brigadier inspecting ...F01807
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Burma
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Maker: Stirling, James Belton RAAF Historical Records Section Cine Unit SEAC
Loading wounded Indian troops into DC-3 aircraft from ambulance at Akyab. Beaufigther dispersal at Joari airstrip. Supply parachute folding by Indian Army personnel at Akyab. DC-3 propeller being remo...F02130
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Dakotas and gliders
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Maker: Jago, Kenneth Francis RAAF Historical Records Section Cine Unit SEAC
RAF and American Dougals C-47 Dakota transport aircraft landing; loading wounded and taking off from Meiktila airfield Burma. A token coverage of Dakota aircraft towing Waco gliders and of gliders lan...F02123
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DC-3 Venom Tracker Skyhawk fly over HMAS Albatross air display
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Maker: RAN Public Relations
DC-3 Venom Tracker Skyhawk fly over HMAS Albatross air displayF11254
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Development of Finschafen as a base
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Development of Finschhafen Harbour and Langemak Bay. Shots of Dreger airfield, Australian-American cemetery at Finschhafen. Busiest road, Finschhafen to Dreger. American camp and storage dumps. Shippi...F07478
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Development of Lae into an Allied base
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Activities in and around Lae following the capture of that area. Shows Douglas C-47 Dakotas landing on Lae airstrip. USAAF mechanics servicing P-38 Lockheed Lightning aircraft. US troops loading fr...F07107
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Dum Dum
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Maker: RAAF Historical Records Section Cine Unit SEAC
RAF Douglas C-47 Dakotas (possibley 52 Squadron RAF) transports, Consolidated B24 Liberator heavy bombers and Short Stirling transport on Dum Dum airfield, West Bengal, India.F02133
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Embarkation of 1048 troops of the 34 Australian Infantry Brigade on SS Taos Victory at Morotai
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Maker: Cartledge, Ronald Selby
The main contingent of the 34th Australian Infantry Brigade, some 1000 men, embarked on SS Taos Victory on 15 February 1946, at Morotai, for the trip to Kure, Japan. Also arrival of Lieutenant General...F07446
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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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Flying nurses
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Maker: Thompson, Geoffrey Movietone News
Movietone news undedited camera footage. Shows RAAF and Royal Navy (RN) nursing sisters, RAAF medical orderlies and RN sick berth attendants at Medical Air Evacuation Transpot Unit (MAETU) passing out...F02081
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Front line at Salamaua
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter Fox Movietone News
Movietone News newsreel version of Damien Parer's film of the fighting and supply around Salamaua. Air supply by Douglas C47 transport aircraft. Aerial strafing and bombardment of Salamaua airstrip by...F01621
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Gona - Buna (Anzac TV series)
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Maker: Artransa Park Television Pty Ltd
Gona - Buna (Anzac TV series)F10034-06
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Gracie Fields concert at 6 Australian Division HQ Wewak
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Maker: Eastman, David Tennant Gaery
On arrival at Wewak airstrip from Madang, where she had given a concert the previous day, Miss Fields and her party were mobbed by diggers who had come down to the strip to catch a glimpse of them. Sh...F07241
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Grand RAAF job: last courier to Japan (Cinesound Review)
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Maker: Cinesound
The fourth item on this Cinesound Review newsreel is coverage of the last DC-3 courier flight to BCOF in Japan by DC-3 A65-71 of 86 Wing RAAF. The Dakota left from Schofields airfield, west of Sydney...F03609
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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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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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India Command No. 2
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Maker: Stirling, James Belton
Akyab airfield, Burma, shows 428056 Pilot Officer (P/O) Selwyn Leonard Bently (Champ) Skeels of Hobart, Tas, a navigator of 197 Squadron RAF as he dries himself. 420261 P/O Edward Roland (Eddie) Poll...F02125
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Jump: Australia's paratroops in training
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel on the joint Army and RAAF Parachute Training Wing at Williamtown, NSW. Shows some of the training apparatus used by the trainees and their first jump made from a RAAF Dakota transp...F10187
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Jungle patrol: the New Guinea story of 8 Australian soldiers
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Maker: Carty, William Montague Trerise, John William Gurr, Tom Finch, Peter
Made in New Guinea, this film was shot mainly in forward battle areas, some of which were under fire. It was photographed by the Commonwealth Film Unit which flew with an Australian patrol into the Ra...F01310
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Kai bombers
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Maker: Barrett, Reginald Mervyn (Reg) Wood, Frederick Sydney
2/5th Battalion of the 17th Infantry Brigade, undertook the job of pushing the Japanese out of the Torricelli Ranges. Supporting the ground forces were three squadrons of RAAF Beauforts. 'Kai Bombers'...F07175
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Kokoda (Anzac TV series)
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Maker: Artransa Park Television Pty Ltd
Kokoda (Anzac TV series)F10034-02
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Labuan Island
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Maker: McInnes, Hugh
Malaria Control Unit, spraying the insecticide DDT from aircraft and knapsack; Military Police - control of traffic; Royal Australian Engineers road building and general scenic shots.F01271
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Looking for trouble: with searchlights in New Guinea
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Maker: Robinson, John
(A voice over sound track has been added to the Digital Betacam version). Activities of the 67 and 73 Mobile Anti- Aircraft Searchlight Batteries in New Guinea 1942-1943. Opening titles "Looking for t...F04002
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Moresby and Koitaki
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Part of an item on the arrival of crack new troops to push into the Kokoda area and aerial supply route. Japanese bombing shows a knock back to this supply line. Identified personnel; Flight Lieutenan...F01806
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Morotai
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A general coverage of move from Noemfoor Island to Morotai and activities on and from Morotai. The item has been part edited with some sub-titles. Several types of aircraft shown both RAAF and USAAF (...F02077
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Morotai general shots
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Maker: Cuffley, Leighton Edward
Coverage of an amenities picnic to Little Djodololo by troops and women of the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) and Australian Army Women's Medical Service (AAWMS) based at Morotai. Shows the em...F07551
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Morotai mail
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A Douglas C-47 Dakota transport aircraft of 37 Squadron, RAAF, on a mail run from Essendon, Victoria, to Morotai Island via Adelaide, Alice Springs, Darwin, Biak-Schouton Island. The route is shown on...F02076
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Mountbatten at Labuan
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Maker: Barrett, Reginald Mervyn (Reg)
On 8 December 1945, Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten GCVO CB DSO, Supreme Commander South East Asia Command, arrived in Labuan. During his stay he toured units and addressed troops in a most informal ma...F07406
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Mr Forde visits No 464 (Mosquito) Squadron RAAF
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Coverage of the visit by Mr F M Forde the Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Army to No 464 (Mosquito) Squadron RAAF based at Rosieres-en Santerre, France. Shows the arrival of visitors...F01629
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Nadzab aerial transport
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
Brief coverage of 7 Division troops boarding planes at Nadzab airstrip for flight to Kaiapit airstrip. Major General G A Vasey CB CBE DSO speaking to group of men on Nadzab airstrip.F07060
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Navigation exercise
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Maker: RAAF Public Relations
Fifty-one members of the RAAF School of Air Navigation, East Sale, Victoria, fly to New Zealand in five Dakota aircraft via Amberley in Queensland and Norfolk Island, as part of the training of No. 19...F02788
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Navy, Army and RAAF assist Civil Defence in 1955 Hunter Valley floods DPR/S/20
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Maker: Defence Public Relations (DPR)
The RAN (helicopter pilots), Army and RAAF combined to assist the Civil authorites in flooded area of the Hunter River Valley, NSW. This film shows Army amphibious DUKWs operating in the Maitland area...F07544
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New Guinea and General Blamey's visit
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Troops arrive at Wanigela for covering attack on Buna. All troops for this action are brought by air. Australian 2/10 Battalion arrived first to clear and maintain this natural landing field. Advance ...F01804
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[No 76 and No 34 Squadrons RAAF] (RAAF Batch 014)
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Maker: RAAF Cine Unit
Airfield at an unidentified location SWPA P-40 Kittyhawks of No 76 Squadron RAAF land at airfield (code SV-T & SV-J). Doulgas C-47 Dakota of No 34 Squadron RAAF (code FD-E) lands. RAAF ground crew wav...F02628
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Noemfoor Island (Southwest Pacific Series No.1)
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Maker: RAAF Cine Unit RAAF Cine Unit 1st TAF (47 OBU)
Produced by RAAF War History Section. Units of 1st Tactical Air Force (TAF) RAAF in action. Units and activities featured are: Reel 1 - No 5 Bomb Disposal Unit clearing land mines and unexploded bombs...F02154
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No 3 Squadron RAAF Middle East, North Africa and Italy 1942-1945. No 38 Squadron RAAF Singapore 1951. No 11 Squadron, Malaya 1957.
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Maker: McRae, Kenneth Norman
Activities of 3 Squadron RAAF in the Western Desert, North Africa, Sicily and Italy 1942-1945. Department of Information photographers Frank Hurley and Alan Anderson? unidentified walking to photograp...F03468
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Oil town Irrawaddy. Supply drops.
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Maker: RAAF Historical Records Section Cine Unit SEAC
Burning buildings at Irrawaddy, Burma. Camouflaged Douglas C-47 Dakota transport with Pegasus symbol nose art. Unloading supplies and loading supplies for parachute drop. Aerial shots from C-47 Dakot...F02136
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On way to Noemfoor Island & Allied landing Noemfoor Island
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Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
On 2 July 1944 Alamo Force (Sixth Army) landed on Noemfoor Island on coastal strip adjoining Kamiri Airfield. They were supported by 503rd U.S. paratroopers. No.13 Survey & Design Unit, RAAF, landed w...F01686
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[Operation Varsity] (RAF R.136)
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Maker: RAF Film Production Unit
Operation Varsity was the airborne crossing the Rhine river north of the German town of Wesel by the British 6th Airborne Division. The troops were transported in RAF Horsa and Hamilcar gliders as wel...F02632
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Pakanbaru POW camp, Sumatra
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Pakanbaru POW Camp, Sumatra 15 September 1945. Sign No 1 Allied Hospital. Emaciated men cooking rice. The sick are on stretchers and are carried by lorries to airfield and are loaded aboard ambulance ...F02170
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Parachute drops, Rangoon
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Maker: RAAF Historical Records Section Cine Unit SEAC
Akyab Island, Burma showing two Australians of No 267 Squadron RAF visit some Burmese. 8th Indian Supply Despatch Company loading used chutes that have been brought back by air from D.Z.'s at the fron...F02126
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Paratroops land in New Guinea
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American paratroops of the 503rd Parachute Regiment and Australian artillery and men of the 2/4 Field Regiment land on Nadzab airstrip. For some of the Australians it was their first jump by parachute...F01613
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Paratroops land Markham Valley and Nadzab
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Maker: Driver, Roy
On Sunday morning 5 September 1943 American paratroopers of 503 Parachute Infantry Regiment, supported by Australian artillerymen of 2/4 Field Regiment, AIF landed by parachute at Nadzab in the Markha...F01854
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Paratroops Nadzab
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Maker: Driver, Roy
The first Australian troops to go by air to Nadzab, New Guinea, landing just after its capture by Allied forces. Identified personnel: Sir Thomas Blamey, Bill Taylor of Brisbane, adjutant Paul Hall o...F01868
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Paratroops training
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Maker: Barrett, Reginald Mervyn (Reg) Kinna, Darrell
1st Australian Paratroop Battalion in training in Mareeba area, Atherton Tablelands North Queensland. Shows paratroopers vaulting over sandbags and somersaulting on mat. Paratroopers exercising on t...F07126
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POW's in Thailand
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Maker: Unknown
Shot of Lieutenant Colonel C A McEachern senior officer in Thailand. Lieutenant Colonel C G W Anderson, MC, VC, recipient of the only Australian Victoria Cross in the Malayan campaign. Lieutenant Colo...F01539
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25 pr (Short) Aust.
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Maker: Australian Military Forces
Australian Military Forces military training film AB4 AC4 on the Ordnance QF 25-pounder Short. Reel 1 shows the manufacture of the 25-pounder Short, the completed gun and its ammunition; demonstrates ...F05008
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[RAAF Baltimores] (Africa)
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Maker: RAF Film Unit
Martin Baltimore aircraft of an unidentified RAF squadron (possibly No 454 Squadron RAAF) taxing at Gambut (?) airfield North Africa. Baltimores taking off. British troops in tropical kit board a RAF ...F02640
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[RAAF Base Post Office] Postal No. 030
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Maker: RAAF Cine Unit RAAF Historical Records Section Cine Unit SEAC
Opens with interior shot of postal sorting room. Postal bin marked 'Pacific'. Shots of men and women sorting parcels and weighing mailbags. 'PMG Melbourne Aust.' on the mail bag. Scene change to truck...F02643
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RAAF ground crew in Italy
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Bari, Italy, circa 1943. Scenes of RAAF ground crew in tropical kit, unloading Douglas C-47 Dakota transport aircraft at Italy. Aircraft arrive. Unloading barrels on the aerodrome. Close up of RAAF me...F02548
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RAAF investigate wartime Dakota crash
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Maker: RAAF Public Relations
The RAAF identifies wreckage of a RAAF C-47 Dakota which belonged to No.2 Medical Air Evacuation Transport Unit. This aircraft on a flight from Biak Island with 28 people aboard, crashed in the 14,000...F02799
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[RAAF Iwakuni 1948 & Korea 1950]
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Maker: Unknown
The film includes a street parade comprised of local population and military service personnel; the Australian base; scenes at the airfield; crew loading ammunition;crew unloading and carrying air car...F03391
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RAAF Marine Section, New Guinea c 1944, HMS King George V, Port Melbourne, circa October November 1945 and Melbourne Cup 1945
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Maker: Lucas, William John
RAAF Marine Section boat 015.91 being lowered onto the water by a large crane. RAAF officer in winter uniform. Landing barge moving past small vessels - many LSTs (Landing Ship Tank) at anchor - film ...F04794
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RAF coverage Caen (Ops T86 C/B 62)
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Maker: RAF Film Production Unit
Coverage of operations by aircraft of the Second Tactical Airforce (2nd TAF) and Bomber Command in the Caen area, Normandy in support of Operation Overlord. Mid air shots of RAF Boston aircraft of No ...F02596
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Recognition of the CG-4A Glider
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Maker: First Motion Picture Film Unit Army Air Forces
Official training film TF I-3364 produced for the War Department by the First Motion Picture Unit U.S. Army Airforces. Uses stills and animated diagrams to show the main recognition features of the CG...F02304
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Rice story
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Maker: Leithhead, David
Douglas C-47 Dakota transport in air, 'My Best Bet' and maple leaf emblem on nose of 435 (Canadian) Squadron RAF shots from aircraft of typical country on Chind Hills flights. Loose rice in aircraft....F02138
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Salamaua activity: Wau and Bulolo
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Members of the 2/5th Australian Independent Company in conjunction with members of the New Guinea Volunteer Rifles (NGVR) in Observation activities over-looking Salamaua. NGVR members guiding 2/5th In...F01215
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SAN Navigation Exercise to New Zealand (DPR RAAF stock shots)
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RAAF Base East Sale, Victoria 1964. Coverage of a School of Air Navigation (SAN) flight to New Zealand. Aircrew briefed, boarding Douglas Dakota aircraft, scenes in flight, landing at RAAF Amberley at...F10357
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Sappers move in DPR/TV/1591
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Maker: Defence Public Relations (DPR)
Licola Village, Victoria. Sappers from the 21st Construction Squadron are helping to breathe new life into this remote Victorian ghost town. The 210-man effort is helping to restore the former sawmill...F04664
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Search in the "Never Never"
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Search for an American B-24 Liberator bomber which disappeared on a flight from Darwin to Brisbane in 1945. In August/September 1967 a RAAF search party covered more than one thousand miles in a week ...F02714
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Second WRAAC NCO School, 1954
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Maker: Fletcher, Joan
Passing out parade of cadets led by W/O Williscroft. Colonel K. Best RCC, OBE taking the salute at Mildura. WRAAC inspecting DC-3 aircraft and some returning home to Western Australia. WRAAC relaxing ...F03490
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Singapore POWs
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Maker: RAAF Cine Unit
Pakanbaru POW Camp Sumatra, POWs waiting their turn to be evacuated watch other RAAF aircraft leaving for Singapore. RAAF aircrews loading stretcher cases onto C-47 Dakota transport aircraft. 2/14 Aus...F02617
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South West Pacific Mail No. 2 (News From Home No. 51)
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A report on the general conditions in the islands in the form of a letter from a soldier to his father, read by Jack Davey, Movietone.F00745
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[77 Squadron RAAF in Korea]
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Maker: Unknown
Mainly colour home movie by one of the Squadron members. Footage consists mainly of aerial activities but there are short sequences featuring closer shots of individual members going about daily busin...F03337
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2 Squadron RAAF South Vietnam March 1969 - March 1970 / Ron Fernance
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Maker: Fernance, Ronald Carlyle
[United States Airforce Base Phan Rang, Ninh Thuan Province Vietnam 1969-1970.] Duc Trang [posing for camera]. One of the civilian local Vietnamese who worked on 2 Squadron complex next to the flight ...F04781
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Street scenes Singapore & arrival of civilian internees by air
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Maker: Nicholson, George Harvey
A group of Australian officers take a tour around the streets of Singapore in an open tourer car. Scenes at Singapore Civil Airport as Dakota aircraft land bringing Dutch civilians who had been intern...F07343
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Supply exercise DPR/TV/143
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Maker: Defence Public Relations (DPR)
Regular and Citizen Military Force soldiers on a supply exercise on the NSW north coast are using a fishing trawler and a RAAF Dakota to simulate the Maintenance of a 3000 man battle group. The 5 day...F03655
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Tarakan / R Wingfield-Jounkergouw
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Maker: Wingfield-Jounkergouw, R
Coverage of the Australian activities at Tarakan Island, Borneo circa May 1945. Shows map of northeast Borneo, arrow pointing to a label 'Tarakan Island'. Australian troops resting under trees. Austra...F04975
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The battle for Buna
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Movietone News item compiled from Department of Information footage (AWM films F01810 & F01813) with supporting scenes of US origin.F00385
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The transport squadrons 341 Wing Akyab
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Maker: Leithhead, David
Burma, Akyab Island and Rangoon, Burma. Ruins, railway station. Dust storm at RAF base. Activities at base relaxation, washing and messing. Maintenance flight at work on Doglas C-47 Dakota transport a...F02148
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Tour of inspection of 2/5 and 2/9 General Hospitals by Lady Louis Mountbatten
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Maker: Cuffley, Leighton Edward
During her inspection of 2/5 and 2/9 Australian General Hospital (AGH), Lady Mountbatten chatted freely and informally with many patients, some of whom had been prisoners of the Japanese in Singapore....F07388
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Transport Command RAAF
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
In addition to actual RAAF Squadrons, there were a large number of Australians serving in RAF units. Among these was Transport Command. Shows Douglas C-47 Dakota transports taking off from an airfield...F01668
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Travels to Tokyo
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Maker: O'Brien, John William Alexander
A home movie taken by VX15127 Brigadier (Brig) John O'Brien. Brig O'Brien served as the Leader of the Australian Scientific Mission to Japan 1945-1946 and Chief of the Scientific and Technical Divisio...F04948
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Ubon and press visit
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Maker: RAAF Public Relations
Coverage of 79 Squadron RAAF at Ubon Thailand in the ealy period when the squadron had just been formed. Show CAC Sabres armed with Sidewinder infrared heat seeking missiles on tarmac and ground crew...F03275
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YMCA activities New Guinea and Bougainville
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Maker: Jones, Leonard John
This film was taken by Commissioner Leonard John Jones during his service with the YMCA & Australian Comforts Fund in New Guinea and Bougainville. Scenes include: prevention. Lae Australian War cemete...F03437