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Invasion of Hollandia
Film
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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1. Italian prisoners arrive in Sydney 2. Prime Minister, R.G. Menzies returns home. (Cinesound News No. 500)
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1. (1 min 18 sec) An overseas liner brings hundreds of Italians captured in the Libyan campaign to Australia for internment for the duration of the war 2. (4 min 10 sec) After his 36,000 mile trip of ...F00529
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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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1. Japanese surrender at Wewak 2. Hospital ships bring home sick POW.
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
1. (1 min 36 sec) 13 Sep 1945. Cape Wom Airstrip Wewak, New Guinea, veteran 6th Division in impressive ceremony at Japanese surrender. Lieutenant-General Adachi signs the surrender before Major Genera...F00821
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1. Japs blasted back from airfield 2. Solomons, captured Jap aviators off to detention camp 3. War on the roof of New Guinea. (News From Home No. 26)
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Maker: News from Home
Extracts from News From Home No. 261. (2 min 36 sec) The battle for Wau, 25 pounder guns and Beaufighter aircraft in action (See also F01820 for Department of Information unedited footage). (58 sec) J...F00722
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Journey to the end of the night
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Recollections of Bill Neave, a veteran of the New Guinea campaign and a prisoner of the Japanese during the 1939-1945 war. Film was produced by Peter Tammer Productions with assistance from Film Victo...F03001
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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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Malaya 8th Division story (Anzac TV Series)
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Maker: Artransa Park Television Pty Ltd
Malaya 8th Division story (Anzac TV Series)F10034-19
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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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[Military operations by the 9th Viet Cong Main Force Division in retaliation for the bombing of Hanoi and Hai Phong (Junction City) August 1966]
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Maker: Liberation Film Office
Captured North Vietnamese newsreels with American English language narration. Shows Viet Cong 9th Division preparations and in attack. Scenes of US dead and prisoners. Entertaining Chinese writers and...F03484
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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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1. Nazi prisoners arrive in Australia 2. Maj-General Mackay returns from Middle East, ARP practice Government House Sydney, RAAF march Brisbane. 3. New AIF song (Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No. 37)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News newsreel Volume 12 Number 371. (1 min 30 sec) First batch of German prisoners arrive in Australia 2. (2 min 13 sec) Major-General Sir Iven Mackay returns from the Midd...F00308
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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
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Occupation of Kuala Belait, Brunei and Seria
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Maker: Hardy, Douglas Charles Rainsford, Ross John
Captain A. W. Smith Officer in command of the 9th Australian Division Provost Company, entering Prisoner of War (POW) compound where Japanese POWs and collaborators are kept. The prisoners on parade f...F07230
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Occupation Rabaul
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Maker: Wood, Frederick Sydney
At 07.30 HMAS Manoora and SS Katoomba laden with troops and escorted by HMAS Vendetta and other RAN vessels, arrived in Simpson Harbour after a Japanese liaison party had been contacted. First troops ...F07305
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[Operation Barbarrosa: the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union. Rommel and Afrika Korps at Tobruk] (Die Deutsche Wochenschau) [1941] = (The German newsreel) [1941]
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Maker: Die Deutsche Wochenschau
A collection of German newsreels extracts and a travelogue c June 1941 covering the following topics. 1. Troops of the Waffen SS placing flowers on their dead comrades graves. 2. The German Army's adv...F01967
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Operation Coburg VC ambushed DPR/TV/777
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Maker: Crothers, Richard William
The triggering of five successful ambushes in four days all in an area of 500 yards has led Australian troops of Delta Company, 7th Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment on current Operation Coburg ...F03711
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Operation "rice bowl" DPR/TV/322-328
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Australian troops from 1RAR, detachment of 4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse R.A.A.C., together with New Zealand artillery, several U.S. infantry battalions and Vietnamese units took part in a dr...F10091
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Operation Smithfield DPR/TV/423 [Long Tan]
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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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[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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[Periscope rifle and heavy artillery] cuts for library
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British soldier firing Periscope rifle from a trench. British 12 inch rail gun in action. 55 Siege Battery (later 2nd Siege Battery) 9.2 inch Howitzer in action. 60 pounder field guns firing. Engi...F00077
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1. 100,000 Pounds damage in big city blaze, Sydney 2. Motion picture industry helps sale of war bonds 3. Women in war 4. Shipping as greatest problem 5. Battle of the Solomons. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 46)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 46. 1. (1 min 9 sec) Sydney, NSW. Big city blaze 2. (1 min 13 sec) 20th Century Fox Film, "Week end in Havana" premiere helps sell war bonds 3. (1 min 48 ...F00368
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POW leaving Changi prison, visit of Major General Dempsey & Changi area, funeral of three POW
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Members of 2/26 Australian Infantry Battalion, 2/12 Field Company and 8 Australian Division Signals shown leaving Changi prison by truck for Singapore wharf and home. Funeral of three POWs who died in...F07339
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POW reception camp, Manila
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Major-General Cecil Arthur Gallagan, CMG, DSO, VD, CRA 8th Australian Division (administering the command of the 8th Australian Division and AIF Malaya), being interviewed by press correspondents aft...F01672
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POWs in Australia: as told by an officer of the guard Edmond Samuels (Australia at war 1914-18)
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Maker: Read, Tony Artransa Park Television Pty Ltd
Edmond Samuels an officer of the guard in Australia during the First World War narrates his experience of the internment camps at Holsworthy, Trial Bay and Berrima. The documentary has Edmond Samuel...F11764
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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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POW's Korea
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Maker: Driver, Roy
Australian prisoners of war who were captured by the Japanese at Singapore, and since September 1942, spent their time in prison camps in Korea. The prisoners were released on 29 August 1945 when the ...F01351
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Preparation and dropping of medical and other supplies to POW camp at Kuching, North West Borneo
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Maker: Rainsford, Keith Carr
Air Maintenance Platoon, Australian Army Service Corps, at Labuan airstrip. These containers, along with other supplies are dropped from a Douglas aircraft as it flies over the prisoner of war camp at...F07314
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Prisoner release, British POW Korea 20th April, 1953
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Maker: Unknown
Scenes at Musan'ni show ambulances arriving from Panmunjom. Prisoners being welcomed. General colour in the camp, flags of all nations. Interior shots are under exposed owing to lack of light in marqu...F07521
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Prisoners returning from Germany
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Return of Australian troops released from German Prisoner of war (POW) Camps. Ex-prisoners and United States Navy and Army personnel line the rails of ship. Australian soldiers released from German ...F07121
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Quarrying stone for road making Balikpapan
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Maker: O'Halloran, John Frederick M
Sepoeloeh Road, Klandasan area, Balikpapan is being converted to a memorial drive leading from Vasey Highway to the War Cemetery on Tank Hill. Stone and gravel for the building of this drive is obtain...F07403
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RAAF activities on Labuan, Nos 76, 77, 82 Squadrons
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A general coverage of RAAF activities on Labuan Island and preparation for move to Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF). includes aircraft in training, conversion of fight...F02083
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RAAF Transport Flight Vietnam 1965
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Maker: Grierson, John David (David)
Introductory scene 315794 Pilot Officer John David Grierson walks into frame wearing a slouch hat and smoking a pipe turns to camera and says “I want you”. Tan Son Nhut airport Saigon a Vietnamese Pan...F10874
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Radio sets and other articles made by POW in Changi Prison
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Many radio receivers were constructed by Lieutenant R Wright of Hawthorne, Vic, during captivity in Changi. Three types are shown being concealed in a broom head, a clock and in a table leg. In additi...F07337
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RAF gaol breakers
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Fox Movietone newsreel on the breaching of Amiens prison by the RAF. In February 1944, some one hundred and eighty seven French underground members were due to be executed for their efforts in the All...F07307
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Rajah's Palace at Kuching
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Maker: Rainsford, Keith Carr
Views of the Astana (native for Rajah's Palace) situated on the north bank of the Sarawak River. The Palace was used by General Yanamura as Japanese headquarters, Sarawak, and is now Kuching Relief Fo...F07332
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3 RAR action in Vietnam DPR/TV/853 & 855
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Maker: Crothers, Richard William
Australian troops inflicted heavy casualties on an estimated force of two North Vietnamese battalions early this week when the enemy tried to overrun Australian Fire Support Base Balmoral in Bien Hoa ...F04204
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6 RAR begins Ops in South Vietnam DPR/TV/1115
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Maker: Bellis, Christopher John
Australia's newly arrived battalion in Vietnam, 6th Battalion, has completed its settling in stage and is now engaged in its first major operation. The operation, aptly named Lavarack after its barrac...F04343
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6 RAR in Vietnam action DPR/TV/571
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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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Release of Australian POWs by Communists at Panmunjom on Monday 20th April, 1953
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Maker: Unknown
The Australian group comprising Private's Donnelly (1/400205) Davoren (2/401292), Mackay (5/400033), Davis (1/400481) and Brown (4/400163) were released at Panmunjom on 23 April 1953. Donnelly was cap...F07522
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Release of Indian POW
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Maker: Edwards, Reg J
The Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Barcoo accompanied by two Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats and an escort of Spitfires, rendezvoued off the coast of Miti Island, near Halmahera Island, with the Japanes...F01689
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Repatriated Australian POWs from Germany in England
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Maker: Humphries Williams, W
Repatriated Australian POW's in England being rekitted, medically examined and at Red Cross centres. Duchess of Kent at Gowrie House, Eastbourne; opening of Somers House, Brighton, for Australian repa...F01273
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Repatriated POW's, Middle East
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Maker: Ashwood, Terry
Motor trucks moving across desert ground, wreath laying ceremony and Australian soldiers looking at war graves at El Alamein war cemetery. Identified graves: WX9452 Private P J Wheatley, NX19969 Lance...F01541
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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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Repatriation of 8th Division POW (Fox Movietone News Vol. 16 No. 42)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Hospital ship Oranje arrives at Darwin from Singapore with ex-POWs of the 8th Division. They are welcomed home by men and women serving at Darwin.F00384
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Report on Singapore surrender
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Report on the Japanese surrender at Singapore 12 September 1945 by Brigadier J.D. Rogers Director of Military Intelligence AMF to General Sir Thomas Blamey. Brigadier Rogers was the official Australia...F01971
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Road maintenance and repair, Rabaul
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Maker: Dolan, Samuel Murray
Owing to heavy rainfall and the initial bad state of roads in Rabaul, Australian engineers have to keep constant watch to maintain them in serviceable condition. They are assisted by Japanese prisoner...F07426
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Robert Parker as Private with 3rd Battalion The Royal Australian Regiment (3 RAR) and a prisoner of war, Korea 1952-1953, interviewed by Bill Fogarty
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Maker: McJannett, Ray Fogarty, William 'Bill' Lawrance
A video interview with ex Korean War prisoner of war (POW) Robert Parker conducted at the Australian War Memorial. Parker recalls the night of his capture, escaping, recapture, conditions whilst incar...F04891
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Ron Guthrie as a pilot, No 77 Fighter Squadron RAAF, and a prisoner of war, Korea 1952-1953, interviewed by Wing Commander Ken Llewelyn
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Maker: Guthrie, Ronald David Llewelyn, Kenneth
A video interview with Ron Guthrie conducted at the Australian War Memorial. Guthrie speaks of his service background and experience, as well as training; his posting in No 77 Fighter Squadron RAAF an...F04889
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Sandakan survivors ex NBN Television production Sandakan the untold story. Interviews with Mick Lofty Hodges, Keith Botterill and Nelson Short.
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Maker: NBN Television
Includes interviews with Don Wall, Mick "Lofty" Hodges (ex Z Special Unit), Keith Botterill, Sandakan survivior and Nelson Short, Sandakan survivor. There is also a brief interview with former Prime M...F04636
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Scenes in Singapore, Changi Prison and 2/14 Australian General Hospital
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Japanese soldiers being doubled through the streets of Singapore under the supervision of 8 Division ex POWs. Scenes in 2/14 Australian General Hospital showing some of the 24 sisters (Australian Army...F07338
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Siege of Tobruk
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Shot by Damien Parer, the first scenes of this film are of a coastal craft flying the flag of Palestine. Max the chief engineer was a German U boat commander in the First World War and is seen talkin...F01097
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Sign boards to El Alamein, transporters, anti-tank ditches, evacuation civilian population at Alexandria
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Maker: Military History Section
Two soldiers examine captured a German 5cm Pak38 anti-tank gun. Close up of the mechanism of the gun. Traffic on the road near El-Imayid staging area. Camera pans to follow heavy traffic movement. Var...F07015
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Sikh film
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Apparently a film on released Sikh Prisoners of war (POWs) being transferred from a medical centre to a convalescent depot. The location, could be Port Moresby area. Sikhs moving out of medical centre...F01877
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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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Singapore surrender 15 February 1942 [Japanese film]
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Maker: Nippon Eigasha
Singapore February 1942, shows street scene with abandoned motor vehicles. British light trucks driving through streets. Australian troops marching in a column watched by Japanese soldiers. Close ups ...F10215
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Speech by Captain H F Ward
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Speech to camera by NX34515 Captain Harold Frederick Ward, Military History Section. He refers to returning Prisoners of War and proposes Government assistance with their rehabilitation.F03464
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93 Squadron RAAF Labuan
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Maker: Robinson, Eric William
[Colour] Film opens with a number of shots of harbours, ships, islands bases and airstrip taken from a Beaufighter of No 93 Squadron RAAF probably on a flight from Kingaroy, QLD to Labuan Island circa...F00418
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1st advance in Western Desert
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Australian soldiers advance through heavy sand and storm. Scenes of Italian POW's and captured equipment.F01233
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Stalag 357 POW camp (C/B 480)
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The German prisoner of war camp Stalag XXA (357) located at Thorn (Torun), Poland. View of camp and group shots of POWs. Diary entry "April 16 The Big day Freedom". Scenes of campfire. POWs fetching f...F02587
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Supply dropping at Nakom Paton
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Maker: Nicholson, George Harvey
Shortly after Japan's surrender, RAF planes started to drop supplies, clothing, food, radio receivers and medicine to POW camps in Thailand. 'Legies' (amputee POWs from Chulalongkorn Hospital) arrive ...F07345
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Surrender of Japanese troops
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Maker: Eastman, David Tennant Gaery
At 0900 hours on 21st September 1945, 104 Japanese soldiers surrendered to the 2/1st Australian Infantry Battalion. They arrived at the top of Mount Shiburangu in batches of ten and were subjected to ...F07246
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Surveillance tour of east coast of Celebes and Soela Islands
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Maker: Cuffley, Leighton Edward
At 1500 hours on 29 October 1945, Soeforce, consisting of some eleven officers and twelve other ranks left Morotai on board HMAS Hawkesbury for a survelliance tour covering the Soela Islands and the e...F07400
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9th Division attack Lae
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Men of the 28th Australian Infantry Battalion examine captured Japanese weapons, a Type 92 heavy machine gun and a Type 98 20mm anti-aircraft cannon. NX12354 Major Campbell Creighton Brown, BHQ, 2/2...F07104
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The siege of Tobruk
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Maker: British Army Army Film Unit
Tobruk, Libya. Siege of Tobruk filmed by British Army Film Unit, story line in commentary. Outlines the events leading up to and during the siege. Includes action shots of the capture of enemy positio...F01469
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The tragedy of Italy (News From Home No. 50)
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Propaganda documentary on Italy's part in the world conflict and a prediction of a sticky end for that country.F00744
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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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Tobruk action 1941
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
The Tobruk area in which the British Forces had imprisoned a garrison of 25,000 troops was protected by two formidable rings of defence, an outer perimeter of stone fortifications protected by mines, ...F01063
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Tobruk relieved (Cinesound News No. 533)
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The siege of Tobruk has been lifted, big convoys bring in supplies, German General Revenstein captured.F00562
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Tobruk, 30th July to 22nd October
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Maker: Monro, Ronald Keith
The day by day story of Tobruk. The leisure hours, the bombing and the wounded. Scenes of bomb damaged Tobruk. Sunken ships in Tobruk harbour. The wrecked Insect Class gunboat HMS Lady Bird and anti-a...F07001
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Toi ac tot cung trung phat dich dang
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Democratic Republic of Vietnam propaganda film on the United States Air Force bombing campaign Linebacker II on North Vietnam in December 1972. During this campaign 40,000 tons of bombs were dropped ...F04795
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Transfer of Japanese from Kairiru Island to Muschu Island
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Maker: Eastman, David Tennant Gaery
Six hundred and fifty Japanese Naval personnel were transferred from Kairiru to Muschu Islands as part of 6th Australian Division plan to place all Japanese in British New Guinea on there. No further ...F07245
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Umamu creek advance along Buin Road, Bougainville
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Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
Squadron of the 2/4th Armoured Regiment, advance along the Buin Road following airstrikes by RNZAF and RAAF strafing along the axis of the road. Artillery and mortars supported the advance. Men of the...F01670
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1. UN invasion traps Reds in Korea 2. UN Allied Forces close giant trap on Korean Reds 3. Orient at the crossroads (Extracts from Movietone News newsreels)
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Maker: Movietone News
Extracts from Movietone News newsreels relating to the war in Korea September to October 1950. 1. (1 min 36 sec). Coverage of the landings at Inchon, Korea 15 September 1950 by the X US Corps. Show...F03507