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A Christmas message from the CAS Air Vice Marshal George Jones
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Maker: Unknown
Christmas greetings to RAAF units serving in forward areas in the South Weat Pacific Area by the Chief of Air Staff Air Vice Marshal George Jones KBE, CB, CBE, DFC.F10176
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1. Air Force ballet 2. New strength in our air arm 3. Fighting men's haven. (Cinesound News No. 465)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel Number 465. 1. (57 sec) RAAF male ballet rehearsing for a show 2. (1 min 54 sec) Features Fairey Battle aircraft 3. (3 min) Sydney, Anzac buffet in Hyde park fea...F00507
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Air Force embarkation Melbourne
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Maker: Department of Information
RAAF personnel embarking on troopship at Port Melbourne. Air Vice Marshal Stanely James Goble, CBE, DSO, addresses RAAF personnel on upper deck of troopship.F01110
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1. Airmen and women march through Melbourne. 2. Australian built ship for Indian Navy. 3. Dutch delegates watch Australia takes wings. (Cinesound News No. 520)
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Maker: Cinesound
1. (1 min 4 sec) RAAF and WAAAF march through Melbourne 2. (1 min 14 sec) Lady Gowrie christens first ship built in Australia for the Indian Navy, HMIS Punjab 3. (1 min 39 sec) Important Dutch press d...F00549
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Air road to Mandalay
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Parked RAF B-24 Liberator bombers. Bombing-up, air and ground crew prepare for mission. Take off, interior shots of aircraft and bombing.F02168
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Alert
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N Bierre, Eric Parer, Damien Peter Mocatta, George Houlton Anderson, Alan Frederick
Shows how the air and ground defence systems are linked together. Also how certain defence orders and procedures are followed at unit level. Scenario; Group Captain G Sampson OBE RAF; Cameramen Eric B...F02194
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Ambulance presentation RAAF, Melbourne
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Maker: Unknown
Scenes 1 to 5: Field Ambulances presented to the British Red Cross by the Australian Red Cross Society. Scenes 6 to 11: Mr Peter Mallach and wife, Mr Casey of Dried Fruit Board representing the people...F01115
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Anzac club
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India?. Shot of a group of RAAF personnel on the balcony of the Anzac Welfare Centre.F02644
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Army-air co-operation
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Training film showing the co-operation of training between Army and RAAF. Students include RAAF and RNZAF pilots and Australian and Allied army officers. Shows the various operations involved for the ...F02074
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Army and RAAF reinforcements enroute to New Guinea
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Army and airforce personnel on troopship and disembarking at Port Moresby, New Guinea. Shot eighteen shows three American cameramen. Martin Barnett of Paramount News with the Arkeley 35mm cine camera...F01209
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Arrival Adelaide
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Port Adelaide, South Australia. RAAF personnel return from overseas service. Air Force Association welcome banner on wharf. The airmen are met by their families. Children line the street waving Union ...F02152
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Arrival Melbourne
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Shows arrival of the "Tamaroa" at Princes Wharf, Melbourne on 16 October 1945 and arrival of the "Stratheden" at Railway Wharf, Melbourne on 17 October 1945. The "Stratheden" coming in to wharf, perso...F02153
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Aussies in Burma
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel item on Australians serving with RAF P-47 Thunderbolt and Hawker Hurricane equipped squadrons in Burma. Newsreel compiled from F02143 and F02142F10195
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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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Australia Day 1941
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Maker: Unknown
The 2nd AIF and RAAF march in London on Australia Day. Bad light conditions. RAAF versus the South African services at Rugby Union Football.F01243
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Australia looks to the air (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 4)
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A short history of the supply of aircraft for the RAAF and aircraft production in Australia.F00327
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Australian aces back to blitz Japs
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Maker: Cinesound
Newsreel item showing Flight-Lieutenant H. Graham Pockley, DFC and Flying Officer John L. Waddy, DFC, seated with their wives in a garden of a private home at Palm Beach, Sydney. The two airmen questi...F02009
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Australian airmen 1939-1945
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Maker: Commonwealth Film Unit Unknown
Produced by the Commonwealth Film Unit for the information of officers in the Repatriation Department. Bulk of the material supplied from the AWM film collection.F10160
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Australian airmen sightseeing Agra, India
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Maker: RAAF Historical Records Section Cine Unit SEAC
Group of Australian airmen sightseeing, examine the Taj Nahal tomb, Agra, India. Exterior shots of the building, two interior scenes and the balance in and around one of the four minarets.F02115
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Australian Comforts Fund mobile unit on RAF station for Australian airmen serving in the RAF (C/B 375)
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Maker: RAF Film Unit
An Australian Comforts Fund (ACF) mobile canteen at a RAF airfield. Beaufighter aircraft in invasion stripes parked on airfield. Airmen gather around the truck and comforts are distributed to the men....F02589
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Australians assault Japanese in Halmeheras
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound Newsreel on RAN ships and units of the 1st Tactical Air Force, RAAF in operations at Morotai in the Halmaheras. Air Commodore Cobby watches operations from ship's bridge. Features Beaufighte...F00823
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1. Australians for Singapore 2. News briefs, Melbourne, 1941-11. (Cinesound News No. 486)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No. 486. 1. (1 min 10 sec) Australian troops go aboard transports in Sydney Harbour en route to Singapore 2. (3 min) AIF parade through Melbourne streets, RAAF b...F00517
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[Australians serving with No. 137 Squadron RAF] (C/B 326)
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Maker: RAF Film Unit
Opening scene of a rocket-armed Hawker Typhoon fighter bomber of No 137 Squadron RAF (code SF-M) taxiing on an unidentified airfield. Typhoon parks and Australian pilot climbs out of the aircraft and ...F02570
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Auto pilot C-1: setting up for bombing
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Maker: Walt Disney Productions
United States Army Air Forces training film AF-212B produced by Walt Disney Productions in cooperation with Minneapolis Honeywell Regulator Company. An animated film on the setting up for bombing of t...F02494
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Balloon barrage
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RAF personnel engaged in the control and operation of barrage balloons in defence of a harbour, against low flying aircraft and dive-bombing attacks.F01769
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1. Beaufighter, Australian made 2. Plastic glass is modern miracle 3. Army beats NSW in rugby thriller 4. On location with the Rats of Tobruk 5. Army PT for women. (News From Home No. 94)
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1. (1 min 3 sec) The first Australian made Beaufighter is shown on its test flight 2. (1 min 36 sec) Plastic glass being made in Australia and its final use in aircraft turrets 3. (1 min 21 sec) Army ...F00785
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Beaufort bombers
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Maker: Nicholas, Bert
A Cinesound production in co-operation with the Department of Aircraft Production and the Department of Information. Beaufort bomber production in Australian factories.F01443
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Beaufort bomber takes air
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Maker: Cinesound
News item on the assembly of a Beaufort bomber. Aircraft leaving factory and test flight.F02025
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Boomerangs in sensational flying
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Maker: Cinesound
Newsreel item on a test flight of the Commonwealth Boomerang fighter aircraft. Pilot boards aircraft; takes off; several shots of aircraft manoeuvring during test flight.F02007
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Boulton & Paul turret
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Maker: Cinema Branch Department of Information
A RAAF training film produced by Cinema Branch Department of Information. Covers daily inspection and maintenance of the Bolton and Paul turret as used on the Lockheed Hudson bomber. The turret is sho...F02323
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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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Brook Island trials (MC30)
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Maker: Adams, S H Hoffman
This film portrays a Mustard Gas attack carried out on Brook Island under the direction of the following officers. Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel F S Gorill; Officer in charge of the trial Dr A...F05747
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By the seats of their pants
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Maker: Fortitude Productions
Program on famous Australian Aviators and their experiences in war. Interviewees include: Bert Richie, Nancy Bird Walton, Sir Jones, Dr Newton, Esther Mather, Jack McMaster, Air Commodore Kingwell, Ch...F03471
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Cairns and Lake Boga
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Cairns, Queensland and Lake Boga, Victoria amphibious transport co-operation with Catalina aircraft.F02268
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Convoy escort
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An RAAF production showing liaison between RAAF and RAN for convoy escort. A naval Lieutenant-Commander and an airforce Squadron Leader lecture on RAN methods and problems. Animated models are used to...F02101
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"D" Day, airmen return home
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound Review newsreel item on the return of unidentified RAAF personnel from Britain.F02014
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Delhi RAF Officers' Club
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Maker: RAAF Historical Records Section Cine Unit SEAC
RAAF officers visit Royal Air Force mess, Lytton Road, Delhi, India. Officers playing badminton, relaxing on lawn, eating and reading in mess, and departure of visiting officers in panel van. Indian w...F02113
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Desert Air Force (Anzac TV Series)
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Maker: Artransa Park Television Pty Ltd
Desert Air Force (Anzac TV Series)F10034-18
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Disarmament of Bell Aerocobra Oxford Bay Dec 1971 (DPR RAAF stock shots)
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Disarmament of Bell Aerocobra Oxford Bay Dec 1971 (DPR RAAF stock shots)F10412
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Disembarkation at Suez and Canal
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Australian and New Zealand soldiers, RAAF personnel and army nurses disembark from troopship at Suez and entrain.F01006
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8 Division AIF and RAAF march through Sydney
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Movietone News coverage of the city march by units of the 8th Division 2nd AIF and RAAF prior to deployment Malaya.F03389
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[Empire Air Training Scheme personnel on leave Edmonton Canada 1943]
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Opening scene shows four Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS) Leading Aircraftmen in front of Mr & Mrs Wize's home at 9918 115th Street Edmonton Alberta Canada. The airmen were stationed at No. 3 Manning...F04630
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Fauro Island natives, discovery of a complete Japanese aircraft & evacuation of sick patient from Kara airstrip Bougainville.
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Maker: Scale, Clement Stewart
John Henry McDonald, trader and plantation owner, of Fauro Island, was forced to live and act as a native for three and a years, following Japanese occupation in 1942. McDonald (43 years old) was born...F07335
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Fighter aces thrill with spectacular flying
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Maker: Cinesound
A Cinesound Review news item showing Kittyhawks in a training flight over airfield. Commentator mentions fighter pilots Rawlinson, Fisher, Truscott and Warne. Truscott is the only one that has been id...F02021
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Fighter bomber: filmed in Burma by the pilots of 30 Squadron RAF
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Maker: Mainwaring, Wentworth McKenzie, Ernest Alex
A brief history of No. 30 Squadron RAF operations against the Japanese in Burma covering the period from October 1944 to the capture of Rangoon in May 1945. Produced by Ernest McKenzie and Wentworth M...F04778
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1. First Australian Howitzers tested 2. Ground speed for RAAF cyclists 3. They bring 'em round a nice hot cup o' tea. (Cinesound News No. 516)
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1. (2 min 23 sec) Biggest field gun made in this country shows what it can do before army and government officials 2. (1 min 32 sec) Road cycling championship at Albert Park, Victoria, shows that the ...F00545
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First inter-allied services boxing tournament
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Maker: Davey, Jack, (John Andrew) Cinesound
Coverage of the first inter Allied services boxing tournament held at Melbourne Stadium.F10185
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First Lancastrian to land in Japan
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Maker: Cartledge, Ronald Selby
The first Lancastrian aircraft chartered by the RAAF from Qantas arriving at Iwakuni. O36 Air Vice Marshal John Patrick Joseph McCauley greets the crew. Mr Alex Gurney, passenger, originator of the Bl...F07473
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1. Future flyers learn mystery of the skies 2. "Ginger" welcomed as mascot of the Air Training Corps 3. Wounded war veterans learn novel hobbies. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 14 No. 10)
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1. (1 min 36 sec) Air Training Corps cadets get routine instruction from RAAF 2. (1 min 45 sec) "Ginger", popular entertainment personality adopted as mascot to the Air Training Corps is welcomed by C...F00382
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General Brett decorates US Airman (Darwin series, 16)
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
United States General Lieutenant General George H Brett presents decorations to American pilots and a DFC to O21919 Flight-Lieutenant (Flt Lieut) R N Dalkin, RAAF, watched by the GOC Major General E F...F01191