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Australian POW's return to England
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Lancaster bombers of No 622 Sqn RAF parked on airfield. Lancaster of No 138 Sqn RAF taxis into frame. Medium shot of servicemen (POWs?) deplaning and gathering near aircraft to pose for camera. Lancas...F02635
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Australians advance in New Guinea
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Ioribaiwa Ridge, New Guinea, Australians advance and take first Japanese prisoners. Hauling 25 pounder guns on Kokoda Track, C-47 Dakota aircraft drop supplies, Corporal John Bromwich, Davis Cup tenni...F00820
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Australian women from German concentration camp arrive in Sydney. (Cinesound News No. 584)
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A small party of women, most of them middle-aged, who have been prisoners of war in Germany, reach Australia. Betty Lanigan O'Keefe tells of her captivity in German-occupied Paris.F00607
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A war story
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Maker: National Film Board of Canada
Documentary drama based on the diaries of Canadian doctor, Ben Wheeler, during internment in a Japanese prison camp.F03421
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Bardia - Tobruk (Anzac TV series)
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Maker: Artransa Park Television Pty Ltd
Bardia - Tobruk (Anzac TV series)F10034-01
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2/43 Battalion AIF Borneo 1945
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Maker: Jones, Peter Hesketh Whitlock
Opens with a close up of a sign show the word Beaufort written in English and Chinese. An Australian soldier walks up to a woman with a child both carrying open umbrellas and points to the camera. Ano...F00420
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Battle of Egypt
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Australian and British troops in the Alamein area; Infantry, Artillery, Cavalry. VX46983 Brigadier Raymond Walter Tovell and 225 (NX73) Major Charles Hector Finlay of 26 Australian Infantry Brigade; G...F01223
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Burma Railway (Our world)
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Maker: Australian Broadcasting Commission
"The Burma Railway" traces the events after the surrender in 1942 of the ill-fated 8th Division. It tells of their internment in Changi Prison, the construction of the Burma Railway in Thailand and th...F03402
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Catalina taking officers and supplies to Kuching POW camp
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Maker: Rainsford, Keith Carr
On 7 September 1945, a Catalina aircraft, loaded with medical supplies and carrying three officers left Labuan Airstrip for Kuching POW Camp. The officers were VX40155 Lieutenant Colonel Alfred Walker...F07315
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Cavalcade of victory
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
For some months British Allied Forces and the Axis Army, lay locked in stalemate in the desert of Quatara and El Alamein. Rommel's thrust to conquer Egypt had failed, but he was massing for another d...F01825
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Civilian internees and dockyards, Singapore
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Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
General shots of civilian internees wandering around after release from Japanese internment camps. A few shots of released Australian POW. Allister Greig of Western Australia, artist, displays some of...F01438
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Commemoration service Rabaul
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Maker: Dolan, Samuel Murray
During May 1942, 800 Allied prisoners of war and internees embarked on the vessel Montevideo Maru at Rabaul for shipment to Japan; she was subsequently sunk en route. On 23 January 1946, four years af...F07419
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[Compilation of post Second World War footage showing repatriation of allied prisoners of war in South East Asia and captured Japanese]
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Compilation of post Second World War footage showing repatriation of allied prisoners of war in South East Asia and captured Japanese, including scenes of injured and emasciated POWs, crowd scenes of ...F03401
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Construction of camps in the Gazelle Peninsula by Japanese troops
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Maker: Thain, Ernest Robertson
Japanese troops were to be concentrated in camps built in the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain; when completed these camps were capable of holding some one hundred and thirty thousand Japanese troops. C...F07363
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1. Crack swimmers take to water between war jobs 2. Chasing Rommel through Libya (Fox Movietone News Vol. 14 No. 6)
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1. (1 min 42 sec) On leave from New Guinea, Geoff Valentin wins NSW 100 metres 2. (5 min) Latest film of 8th Army's advance. Thousands of prisoners taken including General Ritter Von Thoma, German Com...F00378
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Death railway
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Maker: Bilcock and Copping Melbourne Pty Ltd
Relates the story of the building by prisoners of the Japanese of the Burma-Siam Railway during the 1939-1945 war. Uses interviews with survivors, contemporary colour footage of the area and B&W archi...F10252
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Departure of POW by Catalina flying boat for Darwin
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Maker: Cuffley, Leighton Edward
To date, some fifteen thousand ex POW have been processed by 3 Australian POW Reception Group. Each man undergoes a medical and dental examination and is issued with clothing, equipment and new payboo...F07373
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Desert victory
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Maker: Macdonald, David Army Film and Photographic Unit RAF Film Production Unit
The 8th Army's push against and the driving back of Rommel through the desert. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1943.F01308
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8 Division POW on board HMT Highland Brigade
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Maker: McLeish, N
Scenes taken on board HMT Highland Brigade of men of 8 Division and civilians who had been prisoners of the Japanese for some three and a half years, during the trip from Singapore to Fremantle, WA. T...F07340