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After Darwin raid [bomb damage] (Darwin series, 3)
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Damage caused by Japanese bombing raid on Darwin. Troops training, firing various weapons. Rifle, Lewis guns and Vickers machine guns, Browning .50 HB M2 machine gun.F01176
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Bombing (Darwin series, 13)
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
On 16 June 1942, twenty seven Japanese aircraft made a high altitude bombing attack on Darwin, hitting and destroying oil storage tanks and damaging parts of the residential and business area. This wa...F01188
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[Bombing of Darwin 19 February 1942]
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Maker: Wheeler, Roy Crawford
The story begins with the 2/1 Hospital Ship Manunda leaving Sydney in January 1942 to go to Darwin and then to Singapore to evacuate any wounded. The film shows the journey through the Whitsunday Pass...F04605
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Civil defence ambulance
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Maker: Ministry of Information
Made by the Ministry of Information for the Ministry of Home Security. Shows the routine and work of a well disciplined ambulance station carried out in the normal course of a day and during an air ra...F01296
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Darwin Raid [Monty Tuckerman home movie: HMAS Warnambool, Darwin bombing raid and Ambon evacuation]
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Maker: Tuckerman, Victor Ernest Montague (Monty)
Chief Petty Officer Monty Tuckerman's home movie footage of the bombing of Darwin. Film reel opens with a handcrafted intertitle, "Darwin Raid", which is ignited with a burning taper. The following s...F11775
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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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Darwin stock shots: air raid & dive bombing
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Darwin, 4 August 1942. Shows single engine aircraft practices dive-bombing. War Correspondents take cover in silt trenches during air raid alert. Identified correspondents are Bill Barien BBC, Jack St...F01194
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First bombing of Singapore. AIF stand to
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Maker: Nichols, Melmer Frank
Buildings being demolished by explosives. Burning building with only the frame left standing, black smoke and flames rising. An Australian 8th Division 25 pounder gun crew. Crew load and fire gun. Si...F01158
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Fortress Ceylon
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Maker: Army Film Centre
Produced by the Army Film Centre for the Public Relations Department India Command. General coverage of Ceylon, effect of the war on a Ceylonese family, air raid scenes and Ceylon as a garrison and tr...F01545
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Greece, air raid on Elasson
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
On 15 April 1941 the German Luftwaffe bombed the Greek town of Elasson at that time Headquarters of General Sir Thomas Blamey's 1 Anzac Corps.F01083
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HMAS Hobart 1942
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Maker: Johnson, Alfred Gordon
Includes section showing HMAS Hobart's ship's company farewelling Captain Harry Howden after Coral Sea action.F10884
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[HMAS Stuart 1941: in the Mediterranean and voyage back to Australia] / Surgeon Commander T A McLean
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Maker: Mclean, Trevor Alexander
Tobruk January 1941, panoramas of the harbour taken from the shore - first from elevated position and then from sea level- shows warships and transport ships at anchor, black smoke and sunken ships. L...F03526
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[Interview with Alex Baz (Images of Australia 'Decline and fall')]
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Maker: Braddon, Russell Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Interview with Alex Baz for the ABC Television programme Images of Australia conducted by Russell Braddon. Alex Baz talks about his experience of bombing of Darwin 19 February 1942.F00265
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Interview with Ken Thompson (When the war came to Australia).
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Ken Thompson was a gunner with the Royal Australian Artillery, and served in Darwin during the war. He discusses the Darwin Infantry Battalion, formed in 1941 to guard the northern approaches and d...F04050
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Interview with Meg Ewart (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mrs Ewart joined the Army in 1941 and worked with the 2/10 Field Ambulance. She was posted to Darwin and was disappointed as she wanted to go to an active area. The 28 sisters travelled on the troop s...F04054
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Interview with Phil Chapman (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Phil Chapman was a member of the Coastwatchers and was stationed at coastal radio station VID Darwin Radio. The Coastwatchers were set up by the Royal Australian Navy by Commander Falt. The Navy su...F04049
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Interview with Ren De Garis (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Film Productions Pty Ltd Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with 39467 Sergeant Renfrey Curgenven De Garis. Mr De Garis talks about a Dad's Army which was created in Millicent after the war broke out. It was intended for people waiting to be called u...F04104
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Invasion of Sicily
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The Allied invasion of Sicily, code name Operation Husky, 2,000 Allied ships cross Mediterranean unopposed. Features Generals Montgomery, Eisenhower and Patton, also Admiral Cunningham. One scene show...F00808
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[Kamikaze attacks on the British Pacific Fleet at Okinawa]
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Royal Navy ships and aircraft of the British Pacific Fleet, (Task Force 57) in action at Okinawa, circa April-May 1945. The carrier or carriers shown hit by Japanese Kamikaze aircraft could be either...F03521
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Keith Ash: home movie Mediterranean sea and Greece
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Maker: Ash, Keith
Home movie footage from Keith Ash's service in the Mediterranean sea and Greece. Shots consist chiefly of views of the ships, the coast line, water, crew members on shore, landmarks and sightseeing in...F03384