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Advance on Sanananda
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Coverage of action in Sanananda area. Most of this item being photographed with the 2/9th Battalion AIF. Identified personnel: C Bottomley, Department of Information still photographer. H. Black YMCA ...F01848
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American's bush chapel
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
The Americans have built themselves a chapel in the woods. They call it the Jungle Chapel, but Father Anthony Carrol calls it the Cathedral In The Palms. The men built it in one week but found that it...F01776
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Anti aircraft guns AA50 M6
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
The American 102nd Coast Artillery Battalion demonstrate firepower of water cooled Browning .50 heavy machine guns on anti aircraft ground mounts in gun-pits. Identified United States personnel Captai...F01783
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Army improvises huts native style
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
The 27th Battalion AMF shows what can be done in the Australian bush. First men chop down trees, saw them and cut them into lengths for uprights of their huts. Then paper bark trees are skinned and th...F01788
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Artillery, Darwin
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Darwin practice shoot of Ordnance QF 18 pounder field guns.F01777
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Attack on Buna
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Buna, December, 1942. Camouflaged gun emplacement. Generals Herring and Berryman and Brigadier Wootten plan the attack. Wounded Australians and Japanese. Telephoto shots of shell bursts photographed f...F01810
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Blamey farewells troops
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
These pictures were requested by the GOC, Sir Thomas Blamey to be added to a special film made up of Parer's and Bagnall's. Shots taken show Sir Thomas Blamey and an unidentified Brigadier inspecting ...F01807
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Buna Gona front
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Australian commando at their observation post. Showing men at foot of tree, surrounded by water, light very bad here on account of jungle overhead. Men climbing tree and several shots of lookout at to...F01808
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Buna tank action
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Attacking Japanese pill boxes at Buna, Papua. General Stuart tanks of the 2/6 Armoured Regiment moving in. Identified personnel: Brigadier Wootten, Lieutenant Colonel C R Hodgson, Captain Whitehead. A...F01813
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Capture of Lae
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
General interest shots of the capture of Lae, arrival of troops in the town and the damaged buildings. Identified personnel VX47819 Brigadier (Brig) Bernard Evans and NX3 Brig Kenneth William Eather ...F01862
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Comforts for nurses and Australians
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Distribution of Australian Comforts Fund goods to nurses and troops in the Northern Territory, 17 November 1942. Identified personnel: Captain George Wright, Staff Sergeant Medows.F01792
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Corroboree for troops
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Mataranka, Northern Territory, November 1942. Aboriginals stage a corroboree for troops.F01785
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Darwin's 31st air raid
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
General shots of bomb damage after Darwin's 31st air raid. Troops cleaning up wreckage; salvaging equipment from AWA House whch received a direct hit. D McNeill Department of Information still photogr...F01197
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Dilli evacuees and Drakeford
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Mr Arthur S Drakeford the Minister for Air and Civil Aviation visits air force stations in the Northern area and meets Squadron Leader Bluey Truscott and Squadron Leader Dick Creswell. Also four shots...F01791
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Fall of Buna Mission
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Allied troops in occupation of Buna after its capture. Generals Blamey and Eichelberger inspect captured Japanese equipment. Australians attack Japanese sniper in pill box. Shots of Korean prisoner...F01811
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Food supplies
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Maker: Carty, William Montague Trerise, John William
Shows groups of Australian soldiers eating Bully Beef and Biscuit. An unidentified Australian Major giving a lecture on a new type of operational ration. Unloading butter and frozen meat from ship and...F01876
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Galea Bay attack
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
On 9 January 1945 to 10 January 1945 all available aircraft from No. 78 Fighter Wing assigned to a combined naval-air (RAN-RAAF) task against the main enemy bivouac and supply area near Galea Village,...F01688
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General Herring's farewell to troops
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N Carty, William Montague
General Herring farewells troops in Northern Territory when he leaves to take up other duties.F01774
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Generals visit Sanananda and presentation of medals to natives by General Vasey
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Generals E.F. Herring, CBE DSO MC ED, G.A. Vasey, CB CBE DSO, and S.G. Savige, CB CBE, DSO MC ED, visit Sanananda. They travelled as far as possible along the Sanananda road by jeep, then on foot alon...F01847
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Invasion of Hollandia
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
On 22 Apr 1944 Task Force 'Reckless', assisted by aircraft of TF58 and gunfire of United States and Australian naval vessels, invaded Dutch New Guinea in an amphibious operation and began a pincers mo...F01731
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Island target
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Maker: Carty, William Montague Trerise, John William Coffey, Frank Bird, Walter Charles
This is a general release film produced by the Department of Information using historical film footage. For the purpose of continuity in this some scenes may be out of historical sequence, because of ...F01260
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Japanese bomber Darwin
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Scenes of the wrecked Japanese bomber and dead crew. O383 Squadron Leader Richard (Dick) Cresswell shaving outside his tent. He explains with hands how he shot down a Japanese bomber.F01793
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Jungle patrol: the New Guinea story of 8 Australian soldiers
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Maker: Carty, William Montague Trerise, John William Gurr, Tom Finch, Peter
Made in New Guinea, this film was shot mainly in forward battle areas, some of which were under fire. It was photographed by the Commonwealth Film Unit which flew with an Australian patrol into the Ra...F01310
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Kittyhawks, Darwin
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
American airmen flying Curtiss P40 Kittyhawks fighter aircraft of the 9th Pursuit Squadron, 49th Pursuit Group United States Army Air Corps (USAAC) based at Darwin. Identified flyers are; Lieutenant R...F01778
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Landing at Red Beach
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Australian 9th Division land on Red Beach to commence the drive down on Lae. Identified personnel: Major-General George Wootten.F01869
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Major General Stevens 1st parade and presents certificate
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Major General J E S Stevens sees part of his new command. There were three battalions on parade including a section of field engineers, battery of artillery and field ambulance. The General Officer Co...F01782
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Mobile operating theatre
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
This RAAF unit can be moved to any place in Australia. Tent, equipment and all theatre instruments are carried in the truck. Tent poles are the only part of the equipment that will not fit into the tr...F01789
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New Guinea Force Air Liaison Group
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
A short item on M Aircraft Squadron, New Guinea Force Liaison Group showing Wackett Wirraways in flight and landing. Army radio operator in contact by radio with Wirraway crew. Intercommunication betw...F01821
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Nurses at work Adelaide River and Troppo band, Darwin
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Featuring nurses at work in an Australian General Hospital at Adelaide River in the Northern Territory. The Troppo band item features personnel of the 140th Australian General Transport, who made near...F01781
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Ordnance workshops
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Situated in the heart of Central Australia is the largest workshops of its kind in the army for front line repairs. Major Stokes the Commanding Officer recently returned from the Middle East and Capta...F01787
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18 pounder practice, Darwin
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Ordnance QF 18 pounder field guns practice shooting out to sea at Darwin.F01772
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Royal Papuan Constabulary
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N Carty, William Montague
Under war-time conditions the Royal Papuan Constabulary (RPC) was not wholly composed of Papuans; it included natives from the Mandated Territory of New Guinea. The prefix 'Royal' was granted by King'...F01685
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Safari: buffalo and wild game hunt
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Major E Burt, Captain Robert Ballagh, Lieutenant James N Nicholson, of the United States 102nd Coast Artillery Battalion leave camp on a recreational hunting trip. Their bag included ducks, geese, wil...F01784
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Sons of the Anzacs [1939-1943]
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N Carty, William Montague Driver, Roy Hurley, James Francis (Frank) Murphy, Mervyn R Parer, Damien Peter Finch, Peter Parer, Damien Peter Wilmot, Reginald William Winchester (Chester) Australian War Memorial Bletcher, Neville R Higgins, Arthur E Wilmot, Reginald William Winchester (Chester)
A history of the Australian forces in the Second World War up to 1943, covering the principal campaigns in which they fought and utilising contemporary footage. Includes cinematography by Damien Parer...F00188
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1st Australian Marine Supply Platoon & Supply Depot Platoon AASC
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Members of the 1st Australian Marine Supply Platoon at work netting fish, setting rigged lines, and clearing fish traps. Approximately 2,000lbs to 3,000lbs of fresh fish were being delivered to Port M...F01734
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Thunderbolts in New Guinea
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
General coverage of USAAF Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighter aircraft and their crew, at rest and flying.F01859
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Training dogs and donkeys in Northern Territory
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
Training dogs for tracking purposes and donkeys for general carrying jobs where motorised transport cannot go.F01790
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Wycliffe Well farm
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Maker: Carty, William Montague
This farm was an experiment by the army, who at first, thought it was impossible to grow anything in this part of Australia. There were 15 men specially drawn from the army, who in civil life, were fa...F01786