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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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Bismarck Sea battle
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Coverage of the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. Scenes include: 30 Squadron RAAF Beaufighters flying in formation, 30 Squadron RAAF Beaufighters and their crew, strafing attacks on Japanese ships, barges...F01851
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Bombers away
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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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Civil Construction Corps is the army behind the army (Cinesound News No. 555)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No. 555. On 12 February 1942 it was decided to turn twenty square miles of virgin country into an aerodrome. In just seventy one days the first plane landed at th...F00581
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1. Governor Sir Leslie Wilson with US troops 2. Melbourne's famous airmen come home 3. Beauforts at action stations ready to strike (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 23)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Vol. 13 No. 23 Fox Movietone News 1. (1 min 30 sec) NSW Governor Sir Leslie Wilson with US troops 2. (1 min 23 sec) Keith (Bluey) Truscott and Warne return to Melbourne, Truscott goes on...F00346
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Interview with Athol Meers and stills (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Althol Meers worked in a factory at Mascot Aerodrome during the war assembling Beaufort Bombers. He was rejected the three times he tried to enlist in the Army on Medical grounds. He talks in great d...F04085
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Northern patrol (Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No. 36)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extract from Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No. 36. RAAF Sunderland Flying Boats on patrol from and around New Guinea.F00307
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RAAF bomber crew operational training
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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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452 Squadron RAAF Spitfire gun camera film
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Maker: Sanderson, Jack Gordon
Gun camera film of aerial combat training taken by 407835 Flight Lieutenant (Flt Lt) J G Sanderson 452 Squadron RAAF sometime between October 1943 and November 1944 in the Darwin area. Shows practice...F03637
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Veteran pilots learn again at Point Cook
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Maker: Thompson, Geoffrey
Movietone news extract showing RAAF pilots at Point Cook, Victoria, in classroom, at lectures during refresher course. Assorted types of aircraft at Point Cook.F02005
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WAAAFs guide homing aircraft
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Maker: Cinesound
This item shows women of the Women's Auxilary Australian Air Force (WAAAF) training in Radio Direction Finding (RDF) equipment and the operation of RDF by guiding a fog-bound Beaufort bomber back to b...F02002