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Air aces ready for Japs
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Line of US Kittyhawk Aircraft run engines, close up of pilots, Lieutenant Reynolds, Captain Hannon, Lieutenant Moorhead and Captain George Kaiser, damaged Japanese drop tank, Japanese bomber wreck, Ki...F00837
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Allied leaders seal Italy's fate (News From Home. No. 54)
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Allied leaders discuss the coming battle for Italy at a conference. Montgomery, Churchill and Roosevelt all appear.F00748
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1. Australian war loan has America's practical support 2. Australian heroes receive medals for gallantry 3. What rubber means to Australia 4. Bushmen answer call for mounted VDC guerillas. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 27)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
1. (1 min 50 sec) US Air Corps and nursing units parade at Sydney rally, Colonel Harry Cullings, CMG of American Army speaks 2. (48 sec) Governor-General decorates Lieutenant Arthur Roden Cutler with ...F00350
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1. Brisbane pageant opens Red Cross appeal 2. Douglas C54 (DC4) Transport 3. AWAS scientist tests canned food for army 4. RAAF wrestling 5. Cue ace helps acf 6. Troops relax in island paradise. (News From Home No. 90)
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1. (56 sec) Brisbane, Queensland. City pageant opens Red Cross appeal week 2. (1 min 4 sec) New American transport aircraft, the Douglas C-54 Skymaster or DC-4 3. (57 sec) An AWAS Lieutenant in a labo...F00782
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Cross channel action
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A combined exercise and operation as Allied Navy and Army units steam to wards the French coast. United States B-26 Marauder aircraft attack targets in Northern France these include a target hidden in...F00807
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1. Europe, pre invasion battle of the air 2. Little ships hit high spots. (News From Home No. 87)
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1. (4 min) Covers Republic P-47 Thunderbolt Squadrons of the USAAF 8th Airforce flying as fighter escorts for B-17 Flying Fortresses. Shots of pilots, P-47 take offs, in flight and gun camera film of ...F00776
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Identification of raiders
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Maker: United States Army Signal Corps
Official War Department training film I-1017 produced by the Signal Corps in collaboration with the Commanding General Army Air Forces. A dramatized story of how a pilot of a B-25 identifies a German ...F02506
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Interview with Roy Parker (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with Ray Parker who came to Australia as a member of the 22nd Bombardment Group USAAF in June 1943. Discusses his first impressions of Australia, how they spent their rest and recreation lea...F04021
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Land and live in the jungle
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Maker: First Motion Picture Film Unit Army Air Forces
Official War Department training film TF I-334 produced by the First Motion Picture Unit Army Air Forces. Dramatisation featuring the downed crew of a B-25 to demonstrate the basic principles of survi...F02335
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New Guinea art show (News from home No. 53)
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An art show of pictures painted by Australian and United States troops in New Guinea broke attendance records. The show was sponsored by the United States Red Cross and was attended by over 30,000 civ...F00747
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Operation and maintenance C-5 Windlass (Tow targets)
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Maker: United States Army Signal Corps
US War Department training film TF 1-239 produced by the Signal Corps in collaboration with the Chief of Air Corps. Shows the maintenance of the C-5 Windlass and exchange release of tow targets. Uses ...F02467
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Places of interest in Australia 1942-1943
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Maker: Hohmann, Franklin P (Frank)
I fell in love with Australia, thought I would like to live there after the war was over. This film was taken to convince my future wife. Things didn't work out because of outside influences. My comb...F04940
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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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Strategic Port Moresby (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 33)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 33. Port Moresby, New Guinea Australian and American forces in the region are shown for the first time. Aircraft take off and return from missions over Ja...F00355
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Team work in Allied air operations
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Newsreel item on Lieutenant-General George H. Brett, USAAF Commander Allied Air Forces Australia and SWPA, seated in office, introduces his staff: Air Vice Marshal W.D. Bostock, CB, OBE, RAAF Chief of...F02047
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1. Team work in allied air operations 2. Training airmen 3. USA V Australia in baseball 4. Servicemen enjoy breezy hospital show. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 24)
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1. (1 min 20 sec) Lieutenant-General Brett introduces his chiefs, air Vice-Marshal Bostock and Brigadier General Ralf Royce, US. 2. (1 min 25 sec) Young air training corps cadets inspect US aircraft 3...F00347
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The air plan
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Maker: RAF Film Production Unit
A Royal Air Force Film Production Unit promotional film. Introduction title: 'The Normandy campaign was a combined operation by the sea land and air forces of the United Nations. This film sets out to...F02700
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1. The bombing of Cassino 2. Hollandia invasion (News From Home. No. 88)
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Extracts from News From Home No. 88. 1. (4 min 10 sec) Cassino, Italy is almost wiped out by a concentrated aerial bombardment. 2,000 tons of bombs were dropped on the town. However the Germans were w...F00777
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The Douglas A-24 Light Bomber (Identification of US Army aircraft)
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Maker: United States Army Signal Corps
American training film produced by the Signal Corps in collaboration with the Commanding General Army Air Forces, through co-operation with the Reserch Council, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie...F05182
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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