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Aerial drop in Vietnam
Film
Caribou transport aircraft of No 35 Squadron, RAAF supported by Iroquois helicopters of No 9 Squadron RAAF rushed urgently needed supplies to the First Australian Task Force who were on a search and d...F02718
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Airman (pattern)
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray
Figure of an airman in uniform, carrying a parachute. This sculpture was created as a souvenir for sale through the Australian War Memorial. There is a large scale version of this sculpture in the N...ART90972
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Air supply drop Malaya
Film
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 Support: Qantas Empire Airways
Art
Maker: Jardine, Walter Lacy Qantas W.M Brooks & Co. Ltd
Second World War propaganda poster designed for QANTAS by leading Australian commercial artist Walter Jardine. The image is a depiction of Australian soldiers and a Papua New Guinean in the valley of ...ARTV05158
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American airmen rescued
Film
Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
American airman rescued with parachute from sea. Rescue craft races across to aircraft to rescue crew from coral reef.F01266
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Attack with me says Potato Pete
Art
Maker: Unknown Ministry of Food Unknown
British Second World War Ministry of Food poster. The poster depicts the cartoon character Potato Pete as a parachutist. Potato Pete was a character created to advertise the use of potatoes in the pla...ARTV07940
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Australia hessian supply parachute for a Storepedo
Heraldry
Maker: Michaelis Hallenstein & Co Pty Ltd
Hession supply parachute with integral green dyed hemp ropes and a maker's tag sewn to lower edge.REL44827.001
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2/1 Australian Infantry Battalion positions
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
On a spur overlooking the airstrip at Rethymnon (or Retimo) showing the mountains to the south east. Very bitter fighting between an Australian infantry battalion and the German parachutists took plac...ART24056
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2/4 Australian Infantry Battalion positions at near Alikarnassos
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
The Australian positions were on extreme top right of picture, the meteorological station at hight point at left. In the depression running up the centre of the scene was a cornfield in which the Germ...ART24048
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Biscuit bomber: the story of dropping (Combat Film Report No. 425)
Film
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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Bombers away
Film
Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound Review news item showing ground crews arming Beaufort bombers. WAAAF radio operators and parachute packers. Aircrews being instructed on abandoning aircraft procedures and ground control of ...F02018
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British positions near the air-strip, Iraklion
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Sketched at the town of Iraklion, also known as Heraklion. Showing the positions of the 14th (British) Infantry Brigade during the attack on the airfield by German parachutists and glider-borne troops...ART24045
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Burma
Film
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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Cast away
Film
Maker: Willard Pictures
A United States Navy training film produced for the Bureau Of Aeronautics by Willard Pictures on survival at sea for downed aircrew.F02297
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Cowper, Robert Barson (Squadron Leader), DFC and bar; McCall, Katharine (Corporal)
Private Record
Maker: Cowper, Robert Barson McCall, Katharine Various
Collection relating to 407666 Squadron Leader Robert Cowper, 456 Squadron and his fiancee (later wife) 422366 Corporal Katharine McCall, WAAF. It comprises correspondence between Cowper and McCall, ...PR03428
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Dawe's Creek crossing action
Film
Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
Men of the 24th Australian Infantry Battalion supported by tanks of the 2/4th Australian Armoured Regiment, as they bridge the Dawe's Creek and on the road to Anderson's Junction during the campaign i...F01542
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[Details of a parachute pack]
Art
Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Depicts the details of the padding, strapping and bag of a parachute pack, used by airmen during the Second World War. On the verso is a study of a parachute clip. William Edwin Pidgeon (1909-1981), k...ART96444
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Down through the night
Art
Maker: Adams, Dennis
The pilot of a stricken aircraft who has just bailed out. Having exited head-first out of the escape hatch, he is free falling in the glare of searchlights. His right hand grips the rip cord handle r...ART22192
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Equipping our Army
Film
Maker: Ryan, Greg Brown, Arthur Raymond, Geoff Johnson, Ted Wagstaff, Vernon
A promotional film on testing, procurement, maintenance and repair of equipment for the Australian Army. Shows the proofing trials of the General Purpose 1 ton truck at the Army Design Establishment...F00209
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Fashions for men
Film
Maker: Nichols, Melmer Frank Colman, Eric Lade, Winifred Murphy, Mervyn R Coffey, Frank Maynard, John
A propaganda short produced for the Department of Information by Skylogue Productions Pty Ltd. Dedicated to the men and women of Australia who are toiling for victory in the factories and workshops ma...F01365
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Fighter pilot
Art
Maker: Ewers, Ray Gregory, E J
Figure of an airman wearing shorts and carrying a parachute. This sculpture of a fighter pilot was commissioned in late 1948 and cast in 1952. It is a larger version of a statuette, 'Airman' (ART909...ART40997
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Flying Officer (later Squadron Leader) Ivan Stanley Podger displays parachute equipment. This is ...
Photograph
Maker: Unknown
Flying Officer (later Squadron Leader) Ivan Stanley Podger displays parachute equipment. This is one of a collection relating to the service of O0354 (154) Squadron Leader (later Group Captain) Ivan ...P10380.005
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German paratroopers parachuting down to land on Crete. This photograph is part of a collection ...
Photograph
German paratroopers parachuting down to land on Crete. This photograph is part of a collection relating to the service of WX11402 Lieutenant Cecil Edward Hazelton, Western Royal Command Royal Australi...P11578.005
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Gottfried Emrich as a gefreiter 3rd Fallschirmjager Regiment Luftwaffe, Crete 1941, interviewed by Brad Manera
Sound
Maker: Emrich, Gottfried Manera, Brad
Emrich speaks of his experiences as a lance corporal radio operator 3rd Parachute Rifle Regiment German Air Force on Crete in the Second World War. A transcript of this recording may be available. Fo...S02647
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Greek Caique in Iraklion harbour
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Iraklion is also known as Heraklion in the Official War History, the airfield there was strongly defended by the 14th (British) Infantry Brigade, to which 2/4th Australian Infantry Battalion was attac...ART24046
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Griffiths, John Neville (Captain)
Private Record
Maker: Griffiths, John Neville
Collection relating to the service of Captain John Neville Griffiths, RAMC, British Army, England, France, Belgium. Collection includes letters written by Captain John Neville Griffiths to his brothe...1DRL/0322
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Gunner (Sergeant Frank Craig) with parachute harness
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Portrait of Sergeant Frank Craig from the Royal Australian Air Force, Bombing and Air Gunnery School, wearing a parachute harness. Hele was serving as a private in the AIF, when in January 1941 he was...ART25891
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Hampson, Audrey May (Sergeant, b.1911 - d.2005)
Private Record
Maker: Hampson, Audrey May Royal Australian Air Force Unknown
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 94047 Sergeant Audrey May Hampson, Women’s Auxiliary Air Force, Australia, 1941-1945. Wallet 1 of 1 – Contains four folders of material relating...PR03893
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[Hercules supply drop by parachute] (DPR RAAF stock shots)
Film
[Hercules supply drop by parachute] (DPR RAAF stock shots)F10414
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High or low. You can go places in today's scientific army
Art
Maker: Unknown
This Australian Army recruitment poster relates directly to the re-establishment of the defence forces into the Pentropic Division of organisation. The Pentropic Division was formally announced and i...ARTV10128
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Hundredth Army parachute course completed DPR/TV/673
Film
Maker: MacKenzie, Ross St
The Australian Army completed its 100th parachutist's course at the RAAF Base at Williamtown in NSW at the weekend. Since the inception of the joint Army and RAAF Parachute Training Flight at the base...F03905
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Incident in which Flight Sergeant Rawdon Middleton [VC] lost his life
Art
Maker: Smith, David T.
This eerie scene depicts the final moments of Middleton's life. Despite the painting being based on a true story, Smith has evoked an unreal modernist seascape. The falling parachutes of the survivin...ART27538
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It's the finish that counts...
Art
Maker: H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry for Aircraft Production stressing the importance of smooth finishes during aircraft production to ensure aircraft reach their full speed capacity...ARTV01580
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It's the Finish That Counts
Art
Maker: Unknown H.M. Stationery Office Fosh & Cross Ltd.
British Second World War poster issued by the Ministry for Aircraft Production stressing the importance of smooth finishes during aircraft production to ensure aircraft reach their full speed capacity...ARTV03479
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Joseph B. Herman as a Flight Lieutenant pilot, 466 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), relates his experience of bailing out of his Halifax aircraft without a parachute during air operations over Germany in 1944.
Sound
Maker: Herman, Joseph Bernard Petersen, Jack
Recording of the audio of a story broadcast on the television current affairs program "Today Tonight". Narrated by Jack Petersen from the Queensland Air Museum and Aviation Historical Society of Austr...S00113
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Kriegsflieger an der Westfront F243 = Warplanes on the Western Front F243
Film
Maker: Reichsanstalt fur Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht
A Reichsanstalt fur Film und Bild in Wissenschaft und Unterricht (RWU) production on the various aspects of the air war on the Western Front such as aerial reconnaissance, bombing, aerial dogfights an...F06925
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Land and live in the jungle
Film
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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left: Not titled [food queue]; right: Wonder which the P.O.W's want drop't first
Art
Maker: Campbell, Edward Stewart
left image: Australian prisoners of war stand in a queue waiting to be served food. right image: View of two helicopter pilots sitting in a cockpit with beer and parachutes as cargo. The captions jok...ART90380
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Liberators and Dakotas
Film
Maker: Stirling, James Belton
Loading supplies onto DC-3 aircraft from trucks. Wounded civilians on stretchers being unloaded from DC-3 into ambulance. Parachute drop of supplies. Sign "B Flight the friendly firm". Airspeed Oxford...F02129
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Marks, Rodney Stuart (Warrant Officer, b.1921 - d.?)
Private Record
Maker: Commonwealth of Australia Marks, Rodney Stuart
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 422280 Warrant Officer Rodney Stuart Marks, No. 466 Squadron Squadron (RAAF), United Kingdom and Australia, 1943-1945. Collection includes W/O ...AWM2017.1112.2
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Mission to Rabaul
Film
Maker: 5th Airforce Combat Camera Unit
Deals with the air war as conducted by the United States 5th Air Force in the New Guinea theatre culminating in the raid on Rabaul 12 October 1943 in which 326 fighters and bombers took part. Operatio...F01932
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Oil town Irrawaddy. Supply drops.
Film
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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Oliver, Alfred Charles Henry (Warrant Officer, b.1919 - d.1991)
Private Record
Maker: Irvin Air Chute Company Oliver, Alfred Charles Henry
Collection relating to the Second World War service of 414159 Warrant Officer Alfred Charles Henry Oliver, No. 466 Squadron, Royal Australian Air Force. Collection consists of one Caterpillar Club me...PR05846
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Outdoor portrait, probably, of O354 (154) Ivan Stanley Podger as a cadet with an open parachute. ...
Photograph
Maker: Herald & Weekly Times
Outdoor portrait, probably, of O354 (154) Ivan Stanley Podger as a cadet with an open parachute. This is one of a collection relating to the service of Squadron Leader (later Group Captain) Ivan Stanl...P10380.003
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"PARACHUTE DESCENT FROM AN AEROPLANE" (BRITISH AIR MINISTRY PHOTO PPG240) [PARACHUTE WITH BRISTOL ...
Photograph
"PARACHUTE DESCENT FROM AN AEROPLANE" (BRITISH AIR MINISTRY PHOTO PPG240) [PARACHUTE WITH BRISTOL FIGHTER ABOVE. SAME AS H12210]H11987
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Parachute drops, Rangoon
Film
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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Parachute school
Film
Produced for Airborne Command HQ USAAF. Covers the four weeks of training at a parachute school. Scenes include: practice at jumping, packing parachutes, suspended harness training, hand to hand comba...F02203
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Parachutes slow Mirage landings
Film
Today's supersonic military aircraft with landing speeds of nearly 200 mph need more than the normal wheel brakes to slow down the aircraft on the runway. This film shows the use of the brake parachut...F02791
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Parachute training
Film
Maker: G B Instructional Ltd
Official British training film produced by G B Instructional Ltd for instruction of paratroopers. Shows the principles of how to leave the aircraft, control the parachute in flight and correct landing...F02286
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Parachute training, Delhi races
Film
Maker: Stirling, James Belton RAAF Historical Records Section Cine Unit SEAC
Parachute training at Chaklala India. Training on the ground, packing parachutes and first jump. shots from aircraft and shots of men landing. Second item Delhi horse races. Flight Sergeant Bishop, RA...F02127
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Parachute training in the German Army
Film
Maker: War Department
Official United States War Department film TF7-151 on the training of German paratroops. Scenes include basic course in infantry training, exercises on the ground. Manufacture of parachutes, inspectio...F02462
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Paratroop training
Film
Maker: RAAF Historical Records Section Cine Unit SEAC
Parachute training showing Indian, Gurkha and British paratroopers. Shot of jumps from Douglas C-47 Dakota tranport aircraft including one scene of a paratrooper who at first balks at jumping. Shots o...F02145
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Pewter tankard : Pilot Officer Frederick Stephen William Dyer, RAAF
Heraldry
Maker: Crown & Rose Pewter
Pewter tankard bearing the inscription, 'To Pilot Officer F S W Dyer from the British Parachute Company Limited Cardiff. To commemorate your emergency descent with an E E - B P Parachute'. The maker's...REL45378
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[Pilot in deckchair]
Art
Maker: Pidgeon, William Edwin (WEP)
Recto:Man relaxing in a deck chair Verso:Man with a pack Donated through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program by Peter and Elizabeth Pidgeon in memory of William Edwin Pidgeon 2014ART96547
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Pilot with parachute, winter gear
Art
Maker: Hele, Ivor
Australian pilot wearing winter gear, carrying a parachute, RAAF Station, Port Pirie, South Australia.ART25966
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RAAF bomber crew operational training
Film
Training bomber crews at an RAAF Operational Training Unit (OTU). Commentary by Jack Davey, Movietone News. Beaufort bombers, parachute packing, practice jumps from Oxford aircraft and parachute contr...F00839
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RAAF drops paratroops in Vietnam
Film
In the biggest exercise of its kind involving Australians in Vietnam, 100 soldiers of No. 3 Special Air Service Squadron were parachuted into open territory about nine miles due west of Nui Dat by a C...F02772
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RAAF Pilots Headquarters
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
The Royal Australian Airforce (RAAF) Pilots Headquarters on the beach at Wewak, New Guinea. A parachute has been used to create an awning under which a personnel member stands nude enjoying a drink; t...ART29910
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1. RAAF trainees learn cooking 2. ARP training, NSW 3. Parachutes for RAAF. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 12. No. 41)
Film
Maker: Fox Movietone News
1. (2 min 6 sec) Training RAAF cooks in Victoria. Features compressed emergency food and compressed Vegetable Briquette 2. (1 min 26 sec) NSW Police training in Air Raid Precautions (ARP). ARP at a Sy...F00312
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Rice story
Film
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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Robert Chester-Master, Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) interviewed by Ken Llewelyn about his service as a Lancaster rear-gunner with 514 Squadron Royal Air Force (RAF) Bomber Command during the Second World War
Sound
Maker: Chester-Master, Robert Llewelyn, Kenneth
(O18009 (434592)) Chester-Master, Robert (Flying Officer)S01664
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Shipping at the wharf in Suda Bay
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
As seen from Suda village. The 2/2nd and 2/3rd Australian Field Regiments held positions on the outskirts of Suda during the German parachutists attack. Suda figures prominently in the defence of Cret...ART24067
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Silkworm to parachute
Film
An Indian Department of Information film on the breeding of silkworms, the collection of silk and the processing of the silk into parachutes.F01893
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Sinews of war
Film
Maker: Wagstaff, V F Eden, Keith Keone, Jack
A Victorian Department of Agriculture film on the growing and processing of flax in Australia for wartime uses, such as parachute harnesses, fire hoses, tents, boot laces etc. Produced and directed by...F01927
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Supply drop parachute, Changi, August 1945 : Private A A S Fisk, 2/20 Battalion
Heraldry
Maker: Turner Parachute Pty Ltd
Fine white cotton supply drop parachute 10 panel, 11 foot canopy complete with shrouds. The top of the canopy has a circular opening reinforced with lightweight canvas to provide stability to the load...REL34580
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Task of Hercules
Film
Maker: Lockheed Company
An introduction to the Lockheed C130 Hercules heavy transport aircraft. Scenes include tests at Fort Brad USA using jet assisted take off, parachute drops of USMC self propelled anti tank weapon, rou...F03587
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The Fight for Freedom Exhibition is Coming
Art
Maker: Unknown
Little is known about this all-text Second World War poster. It aims to promote an exhibition called "Fight for Freedom" and judging by the nature of the items in the exhibition as described on the po...ARTV02311.002
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The "Fight for Freedom" Exhibition is Coming
Art
Maker: Unknown
Little is known about this all-text Second World War poster. It aims to promote an exhibition called "Fight for Freedom" and judging by the nature of the items in the exhibition as described on the po...ARTV02311.001
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"THE GUARDIAN ANGEL" (BRITISH AIR MINISTRY PHOTO PPG232) [GUARDIAN ANGLE PARACHUTE]
Photograph
"THE GUARDIAN ANGEL" (BRITISH AIR MINISTRY PHOTO PPG232) [GUARDIAN ANGLE PARACHUTE]H11978
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The incident for which Flight Sergeant Middleton was awarded the Victoria Cross
Art
Maker: Turner, Charles R.
This work shows the incident for which Flight Sergeant Middleton was awarded the Victoria Cross. A Liberator ploughs into the ocean, as two parachutes float in the background. Middleton was awarded th...ART26707
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The sigs go into action!
Art
Maker: Ashton, Richard
A cartoon drawing of a group of soldiers running for shelter in a bunker while the war rages overhead.ART29864
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Three of ours down
Art
Maker: Kearton, William Frederick
Depicts three Australian soldiers standing in the right corner of the image on the edge of a verdant landscape. A large plume of smoke emanates from a wreckage nearby. In the sky, a zeppelin is in fla...ART93359.009
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ump from the clouds (The Australian Gazette No. 800)
Film
Maker: Australasian Gazette
The first parachute trials in Australia held at Richmond NSW. Scenes include Hucks Starter used on a DH-9A (A1-10) of No 3 Sqn RAAF. Trial jump using a dummy. Harnessing the parachutist for the jump. ...F02257
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View from 2/4th Australian Infantry Battalion positions, near Alikarnassos
Art
Positions held by the Battalion when it was attached to 14th (British) Infantry Brigade in the defence of Heraklion in May 1941 against the German glider-borne and parachute troops. The picture shows ...ART24037
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View looking S.E from 2/4th Australian Infantry Battalion positions near Alikarnassos
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Showing landing areas of parachutists and glider-borne troops during the German invasion of Crete in May 1941. The landings were made in the middle distance.ART24049
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View of Iraklion air-strip
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Iraklion is described in the Official War History as Heraklion. View of the airfield as seen from the east. The 2/4th Australian Infantry Battalion, while attached to the 14th (British) Infantry Briga...ART24047
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Warrant Officer Francis Gould
Art
Maker: Dargie, William
Portrait of A414671 Warrant Francis Harrison Gould, pilot, No 134 Squadron Royal Air Force, shown carrying his parachute and oxygen mask out to his plane, Ratnap, India.ART23156
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Watch out on the Rhine
Art
Maker: Mahony, Will
This cartoon comments on the airborne invasion of Holland and Operation Market Garden. In September 1944 the German occupation of Holland and Germany itself, represented in this cartoon by Hitler with...ART94325
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Women in war (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 43)
Film
Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 43. AWAS (Australian Women's Army Service ) and WAAAFs (Women's Auxiliary Australian Air Force) carry out a multitude of responsible jobs including parach...F00365