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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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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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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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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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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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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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Liberators and Dakotas
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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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Loading wounded natives on plane
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Maker: Jago, Kenneth Francis Jago, Kenneth Francis RAAF Historical Records Section Cine Unit SEAC
Ambulances convey wounded to Meiktila airstrip where airmen load stretcher case into Douglas C-47 Dakota transport aircraft for evacuation. The film contains three shots of a burning aircraft hangar a...F02122
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Noemfoor
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Noemfoor Island, circa 1944 -1945. RAAF ground crew servicing Beaufighter aircraft equipped with rocket racks. Beaufighters attacking a barge on the beach. Aircraft releasing rockets. Catalina flying ...F02155
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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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Port Moresby to Buna-Sanananda
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Maker: Rintel, David Leslie Wood, Frederick Sydney
A general coverage of activities of Australian and American forces between Port Moresby-Kokoda-Sanananda. Subjects covered include scenes along Kokoda Trail; supply dropping, re-entry of Kokoda by Aus...F07546
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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 in Western Desert
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Maker: Monro, Ronald Keith
The activities of 3 Squadron RAAF in the Western Desert. Shows Squadron personnel messing, the evacuation of casualities by air ambulance, ground crew servicing Kittyhawk aircraft and shots from a fl...F07002
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Recognition of the L5 airplane
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Maker: First Motion Picture Film Unit Army Air Forces
Official War Department training film TF I-3362 produced by the First Motion Picture Unit Army Airforces. Uses stills and animated drawings to illustrate the main recognition features of the L-5 Senti...F02327
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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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The nine hundred
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Maker: Ministry of Information
The story of the airlift of nine hundred wounded Yugoslav partisans during the summer of 1944. A Yugoslav Army Corps was surrounded by the Germans and the wounded could not be moved for the break-out ...F01938
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The war in New Guinea
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Shots of unloading ships at Port Moresby, aircraft bringing in supplies to forward areas and flying out wounded, making airstrip.F01649
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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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1. US casualties from Guadalcanal are transported by air ambulance 2. Living off the country. (News From Home. No. 41)
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1. (1 min 52 sec) American troops wounded at Guadalcanal are flown back to base hospitals (Movietone) 2. (2 min 32 sec) Troops learn to live off the land in Western Australia (Cinesound)F00736