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Advance on Kokoda
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Kokoda Trail, 8 October 1942. Scenes during the advance of Australian forces over ground just evacuated by the Japanese. Australians examine Japanese 75 mm mountain gun and ammunition. Bringing up 25 ...F01809
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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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AIF in action in Malaya
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Contains scenes from official Department of Information film F01171. Commentary, Charles Lawrence Cinesound Review. Singapore, bomb damage, fire fighting, bren gun carrier, Indian troops in trucks, 25...F00831
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Alert in the east
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Maker: British Movietone News
A Ministry of Information film produced by British Movietone News. Covers the defences of the British Empire in the East. Singapore and its importance as a naval base. Aden which guards the enterance ...F01491
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1. Americans raid Tokyo in B25 Mitchell Bombers from USS "Hornet" 2. AIF jungle training. (News From Home No. 40)
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1. (4 min 18 sec) Tokyo raid by carrier borne Mitchell Bombers from the aircraft carrier USS Hornet on 18 April 1942 led by Major General Doolittle. Admiral Halsey and General Henry H. Arnold also app...F00735
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Attack
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Maker: United States Department of War
The battle for New Britain a United States War Department production photographed by the United States Signal Corps and USAAF. Shows scenes at the 'Overpower' Task Force three staging areas including ...F01928
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Backwaters and swamps in the Labu area
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Maker: Wood, Frederick Sydney
These waterways extend for miles through tropical jungle which is so thick it blocks out the sunlight. Sunken Japanese barges show that they had used these waters. Transport used for the trip was a sm...F07172
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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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Burma victory
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Maker: Macdonald, David Army Film Unit
Documentary film produced by the British Army Film Unit on the campaign in Burma from 1942 to the capitulation of the Japanese in Rangoon in 1945. The last film of the Victory trilogy, the other two b...F10002
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Chaffee (M24) Light Tanks in Bougainville (Tank trials)
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Maker: Scale, Clement Stewart Wood, Frederick Sydney
An Australian Army research film produced by the Military History Cinema Section and directed by G Armoured Corps on behalf of the War Office. This film was photographed during trials of the American ...F07353
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Churchill and Sherman tanks (Tank trials)
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Maker: Wood, Frederick Sydney
An Australian Army research film produced by the Military History Cinema Section. This film was photographed during comparison trials between Churchill and Sherman tanks and provides a graphic illustr...F07352
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Dawe's Creek crossing action
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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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Drive against the Japanese up the Markham and Ramu valleys
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Maker: Driver, Roy
General coverage of the drive against the Japanese up the Ramu and Markham River valleys, New Guinea. Shows the every day activities of the troops. Identified personnel: Church of England Padre H No...F01853
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Easter action on Bougainville
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Maker: New Zealand National Film Unit
Introduction reads: "While on the home front most of us were taking it easy for four days over Easter, Americans, Fijians and New Zealanders were fighting the Japanese in the shell blasted swamps and ...F01889
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Front line at Salamaua
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter Fox Movietone News
Movietone News newsreel version of Damien Parer's film of the fighting and supply around Salamaua. Air supply by Douglas C47 transport aircraft. Aerial strafing and bombardment of Salamaua airstrip by...F01621
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General Blamey speaks to US soldiers at jungle training school
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Maker: Dubof Hahn, Arthur Murphy
General Sir Thomas Blamey's arrival and tour of an American Unit Jungle Training Centre, Oahu, Hawaii. During his tour Blamey addressed some of the troops participating in the course. Identified perso...F01751
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Generals Blamey and Dewing at Canungra
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Maker: Military History Section
General Sir Thomas Blamey and Major General R H Dewing Head of UK Liaison Staff inspect the Land Head Quarters Training Centre (Jungle Warfare) at Canungra Queensland.F07042
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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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Interview with Corporal Ray Baldwin "C" 2/27 Battalion (The Gona/Buna interviews)
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Maker: Training Technology Centre Australian Army
Interview with Corporal Ray Baldwin "C" 2/27 Battalion (The Gona/Buna interviews)F04814
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Interview with Lieutenant Bob Johns "A" Coy 2/27 Battalion (The Gona/ Buna interviews)
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Maker: Training Technology Centre Australian Army
Interview with Lieutenant Bob Johns "A" Coy 2/27 Battalion (The Gona/ Buna interviews)F04813