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Kuching POW Camp
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Maker: Rainsford, Keith Carr
Scenes taken at POW camp, Kuching, where some one thousand three hundred people, British, Australian troops and civilians and some Roman Catholic priests had gathered. Parade for visit of 351001 (VX7)...F07331
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Lancaster
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Video narration with Harold Everard who was an engineer with No. 463 Squadron RAAF. Mr Evans tells of his experiences serving with 463 Squadron and particulary the 26th raid on Schweinfurt, Germany on...F04177
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Leaflets on Ambonia
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
A RAAF Liberator aircraft flew over the Ambonia area where a large number of Australian prisoners of war held by the Japanese. The pamphlets were prepared by FELO (Far East Liaison Office) to inform t...F01625
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Liberated Indian troops
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
Liberated troops of 1st Indian Anti-Aircraft Regiment are shown Allied aircraft at Bougainville, New Guinea. RAAF pilot officer explains armour on a Boomerang aircraft of 5 Squadron RAAF (Sqn Code BF)...F07182
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Liberation of English naval POW & occupation of Macassar
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Maker: O'Halloran, John Frederick M
On 1 October 1945, troops of 2/14 Australian Infantry Battalion were transported from Balikpapan in HMAS Gascoyne and HMAS Burdekin to occupy Macassar. Prior to this, however, on 27 September 1945, tr...F07367
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Lofoten raid
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Maker: Army Film and Photographic Unit
A Ministry of Information film produced by the Army Film Unit in collaboration with the Crown Film Unit. With an eye witness account by Lieutenant Commander Anthony Kimmins. The story of the Royal Nav...F01340
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Lutong oil refinery
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Maker: Driver, Roy
A few shots of the landing at Weston, North East Coast of Brunei Bay and soldiers scouting. Two shots of Indian prisoners of war. They were members of an engineering unit captured at Singapore and wer...F01353
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[Macksville welcomes home returned soldiers]
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Maker: Joseph, Louis
Film opens showing a street march moving towards camera. View moving towards camera showing a horseman wearing a slouch hat leading the welcome home march. Next is the Macksville brass band and flag c...F04942
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Malaya 8th Division story (Anzac TV Series)
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Maker: Artransa Park Television Pty Ltd
Malaya 8th Division story (Anzac TV Series)F10034-19
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Manunda and New Guinea / Major William Maurice Ada
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Maker: Ada, William Maurice
Partial colour home movie showing ship board scenes and views of Manunda and New Guinea; views from the ship; shots of Australian army personnel on board the Manunda; nurses on boarding craft, wearin...F04767
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Movement of Japanese from Nauru to Torokina
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Maker: Rintel, David Leslie
Following the surrender of Nauru Island, Japanese prisoners were transferred by the SS River Glenelg to camps at Torokina, Bougainville.F07349
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1. Nazi prisoners arrive in Australia 2. Maj-General Mackay returns from Middle East, ARP practice Government House Sydney, RAAF march Brisbane. 3. New AIF song (Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No. 37)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News newsreel Volume 12 Number 371. (1 min 30 sec) First batch of German prisoners arrive in Australia 2. (2 min 13 sec) Major-General Sir Iven Mackay returns from the Midd...F00308
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[No. 3 Squadron RAAF in the Western Desert]
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Maker: Salter, James Charles
Western desert, North Africa circa 1941-1942, long shot of tent and parked P-40 Kittyhawk of No. 3 Squadron RAAF in background. Three shots of P-40s preparing to take off from desert airfield. Ground ...F04171
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Nurses from Rabaul in Manila on way home
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Four Australian army nurses, eleven Australian civilian nurses and one Red Cross worker in Manila on way back to Australia. They were captured at Rabaul, New Britain, held ther for six months at a Ger...F01627
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Occupation of Kuala Belait, Brunei and Seria
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Maker: Hardy, Douglas Charles Rainsford, Ross John
Captain A. W. Smith Officer in command of the 9th Australian Division Provost Company, entering Prisoner of War (POW) compound where Japanese POWs and collaborators are kept. The prisoners on parade f...F07230
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Occupation Rabaul
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Maker: Wood, Frederick Sydney
At 07.30 HMAS Manoora and SS Katoomba laden with troops and escorted by HMAS Vendetta and other RAN vessels, arrived in Simpson Harbour after a Japanese liaison party had been contacted. First troops ...F07305
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[Operation Barbarrosa: the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union. Rommel and Afrika Korps at Tobruk] (Die Deutsche Wochenschau) [1941] = (The German newsreel) [1941]
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Maker: Die Deutsche Wochenschau
A collection of German newsreels extracts and a travelogue c June 1941 covering the following topics. 1. Troops of the Waffen SS placing flowers on their dead comrades graves. 2. The German Army's adv...F01967
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[Operation Varsity] (RAF R.136)
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Maker: RAF Film Production Unit
Operation Varsity was the airborne crossing the Rhine river north of the German town of Wesel by the British 6th Airborne Division. The troops were transported in RAF Horsa and Hamilcar gliders as wel...F02632
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Pakanbaru POW camp, Sumatra
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Pakanbaru POW Camp, Sumatra 15 September 1945. Sign No 1 Allied Hospital. Emaciated men cooking rice. The sick are on stretchers and are carried by lorries to airfield and are loaded aboard ambulance ...F02170
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1. 100,000 Pounds damage in big city blaze, Sydney 2. Motion picture industry helps sale of war bonds 3. Women in war 4. Shipping as greatest problem 5. Battle of the Solomons. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 46)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 46. 1. (1 min 9 sec) Sydney, NSW. Big city blaze 2. (1 min 13 sec) 20th Century Fox Film, "Week end in Havana" premiere helps sell war bonds 3. (1 min 48 ...F00368
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POW leaving Changi prison, visit of Major General Dempsey & Changi area, funeral of three POW
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Members of 2/26 Australian Infantry Battalion, 2/12 Field Company and 8 Australian Division Signals shown leaving Changi prison by truck for Singapore wharf and home. Funeral of three POWs who died in...F07339
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POW reception camp, Manila
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Major-General Cecil Arthur Gallagan, CMG, DSO, VD, CRA 8th Australian Division (administering the command of the 8th Australian Division and AIF Malaya), being interviewed by press correspondents aft...F01672
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POW's in Thailand
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Maker: Unknown
Shot of Lieutenant Colonel C A McEachern senior officer in Thailand. Lieutenant Colonel C G W Anderson, MC, VC, recipient of the only Australian Victoria Cross in the Malayan campaign. Lieutenant Colo...F01539
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POW's Korea
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Maker: Driver, Roy
Australian prisoners of war who were captured by the Japanese at Singapore, and since September 1942, spent their time in prison camps in Korea. The prisoners were released on 29 August 1945 when the ...F01351
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Preparation and dropping of medical and other supplies to POW camp at Kuching, North West Borneo
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Maker: Rainsford, Keith Carr
Air Maintenance Platoon, Australian Army Service Corps, at Labuan airstrip. These containers, along with other supplies are dropped from a Douglas aircraft as it flies over the prisoner of war camp at...F07314
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Prisoners returning from Germany
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Return of Australian troops released from German Prisoner of war (POW) Camps. Ex-prisoners and United States Navy and Army personnel line the rails of ship. Australian soldiers released from German ...F07121
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Quarrying stone for road making Balikpapan
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Maker: O'Halloran, John Frederick M
Sepoeloeh Road, Klandasan area, Balikpapan is being converted to a memorial drive leading from Vasey Highway to the War Cemetery on Tank Hill. Stone and gravel for the building of this drive is obtain...F07403
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RAAF activities on Labuan, Nos 76, 77, 82 Squadrons
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A general coverage of RAAF activities on Labuan Island and preparation for move to Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF). includes aircraft in training, conversion of fight...F02083
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Radio sets and other articles made by POW in Changi Prison
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Many radio receivers were constructed by Lieutenant R Wright of Hawthorne, Vic, during captivity in Changi. Three types are shown being concealed in a broom head, a clock and in a table leg. In additi...F07337
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RAF gaol breakers
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Fox Movietone newsreel on the breaching of Amiens prison by the RAF. In February 1944, some one hundred and eighty seven French underground members were due to be executed for their efforts in the All...F07307
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Rajah's Palace at Kuching
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Maker: Rainsford, Keith Carr
Views of the Astana (native for Rajah's Palace) situated on the north bank of the Sarawak River. The Palace was used by General Yanamura as Japanese headquarters, Sarawak, and is now Kuching Relief Fo...F07332
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Release of Indian POW
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Maker: Edwards, Reg J
The Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Barcoo accompanied by two Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats and an escort of Spitfires, rendezvoued off the coast of Miti Island, near Halmahera Island, with the Japanes...F01689
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Repatriated Australian POWs from Germany in England
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Maker: Humphries Williams, W
Repatriated Australian POW's in England being rekitted, medically examined and at Red Cross centres. Duchess of Kent at Gowrie House, Eastbourne; opening of Somers House, Brighton, for Australian repa...F01273
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Repatriated POW's, Middle East
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Maker: Ashwood, Terry
Motor trucks moving across desert ground, wreath laying ceremony and Australian soldiers looking at war graves at El Alamein war cemetery. Identified graves: WX9452 Private P J Wheatley, NX19969 Lance...F01541
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Repatriation of Japanese troops from Rabaul
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Maker: Dolan, Samuel Murray
On 28th February 1946, the Japanese aircraft carrier Katsuragi arrived at Rabaul carrying 1,400 Koreans who refused to disembark to make way for 2,500 Japanese POW. After an armed escort persuaded the...F07424
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Repatriation of 8th Division POW (Fox Movietone News Vol. 16 No. 42)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Hospital ship Oranje arrives at Darwin from Singapore with ex-POWs of the 8th Division. They are welcomed home by men and women serving at Darwin.F00384
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Report on Singapore surrender
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Report on the Japanese surrender at Singapore 12 September 1945 by Brigadier J.D. Rogers Director of Military Intelligence AMF to General Sir Thomas Blamey. Brigadier Rogers was the official Australia...F01971
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Road maintenance and repair, Rabaul
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Maker: Dolan, Samuel Murray
Owing to heavy rainfall and the initial bad state of roads in Rabaul, Australian engineers have to keep constant watch to maintain them in serviceable condition. They are assisted by Japanese prisoner...F07426
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Sandakan survivors ex NBN Television production Sandakan the untold story. Interviews with Mick Lofty Hodges, Keith Botterill and Nelson Short.
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Maker: NBN Television
Includes interviews with Don Wall, Mick "Lofty" Hodges (ex Z Special Unit), Keith Botterill, Sandakan survivior and Nelson Short, Sandakan survivor. There is also a brief interview with former Prime M...F04636
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Scenes in Singapore, Changi Prison and 2/14 Australian General Hospital
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Japanese soldiers being doubled through the streets of Singapore under the supervision of 8 Division ex POWs. Scenes in 2/14 Australian General Hospital showing some of the 24 sisters (Australian Army...F07338
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Siege of Tobruk
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Shot by Damien Parer, the first scenes of this film are of a coastal craft flying the flag of Palestine. Max the chief engineer was a German U boat commander in the First World War and is seen talkin...F01097
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Sign boards to El Alamein, transporters, anti-tank ditches, evacuation civilian population at Alexandria
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Maker: Military History Section
Two soldiers examine captured a German 5cm Pak38 anti-tank gun. Close up of the mechanism of the gun. Traffic on the road near El-Imayid staging area. Camera pans to follow heavy traffic movement. Var...F07015
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Sikh film
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Apparently a film on released Sikh Prisoners of war (POWs) being transferred from a medical centre to a convalescent depot. The location, could be Port Moresby area. Sikhs moving out of medical centre...F01877
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Singapore POWs
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Maker: RAAF Cine Unit
Pakanbaru POW Camp Sumatra, POWs waiting their turn to be evacuated watch other RAAF aircraft leaving for Singapore. RAAF aircrews loading stretcher cases onto C-47 Dakota transport aircraft. 2/14 Aus...F02617
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Singapore surrender 15 February 1942 [Japanese film]
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Maker: Nippon Eigasha
Singapore February 1942, shows street scene with abandoned motor vehicles. British light trucks driving through streets. Australian troops marching in a column watched by Japanese soldiers. Close ups ...F10215
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Speech by Captain H F Ward
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Speech to camera by NX34515 Captain Harold Frederick Ward, Military History Section. He refers to returning Prisoners of War and proposes Government assistance with their rehabilitation.F03464
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93 Squadron RAAF Labuan
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Maker: Robinson, Eric William
[Colour] Film opens with a number of shots of harbours, ships, islands bases and airstrip taken from a Beaufighter of No 93 Squadron RAAF probably on a flight from Kingaroy, QLD to Labuan Island circa...F00418
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1st advance in Western Desert
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Australian soldiers advance through heavy sand and storm. Scenes of Italian POW's and captured equipment.F01233
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Stalag 357 POW camp (C/B 480)
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The German prisoner of war camp Stalag XXA (357) located at Thorn (Torun), Poland. View of camp and group shots of POWs. Diary entry "April 16 The Big day Freedom". Scenes of campfire. POWs fetching f...F02587
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Supply dropping at Nakom Paton
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Maker: Nicholson, George Harvey
Shortly after Japan's surrender, RAF planes started to drop supplies, clothing, food, radio receivers and medicine to POW camps in Thailand. 'Legies' (amputee POWs from Chulalongkorn Hospital) arrive ...F07345
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Surrender of Japanese troops
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Maker: Eastman, David Tennant Gaery
At 0900 hours on 21st September 1945, 104 Japanese soldiers surrendered to the 2/1st Australian Infantry Battalion. They arrived at the top of Mount Shiburangu in batches of ten and were subjected to ...F07246
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Surveillance tour of east coast of Celebes and Soela Islands
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Maker: Cuffley, Leighton Edward
At 1500 hours on 29 October 1945, Soeforce, consisting of some eleven officers and twelve other ranks left Morotai on board HMAS Hawkesbury for a survelliance tour covering the Soela Islands and the e...F07400
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9th Division attack Lae
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Men of the 28th Australian Infantry Battalion examine captured Japanese weapons, a Type 92 heavy machine gun and a Type 98 20mm anti-aircraft cannon. NX12354 Major Campbell Creighton Brown, BHQ, 2/2...F07104
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The siege of Tobruk
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Maker: British Army Army Film Unit
Tobruk, Libya. Siege of Tobruk filmed by British Army Film Unit, story line in commentary. Outlines the events leading up to and during the siege. Includes action shots of the capture of enemy positio...F01469
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The tragedy of Italy (News From Home No. 50)
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Propaganda documentary on Italy's part in the world conflict and a prediction of a sticky end for that country.F00744
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The War: a current information film for the Armed Services #6
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Maker: United States Army Signal Corps
Propaganda newsreel items for screening to US troops produced by the United States War Department Army Service Forces Special Division and the Army Signal Corps with the co-operation of the Air Force,...F04903
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Tobruk action 1941
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
The Tobruk area in which the British Forces had imprisoned a garrison of 25,000 troops was protected by two formidable rings of defence, an outer perimeter of stone fortifications protected by mines, ...F01063
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Tobruk relieved (Cinesound News No. 533)
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The siege of Tobruk has been lifted, big convoys bring in supplies, German General Revenstein captured.F00562
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Tobruk, 30th July to 22nd October
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Maker: Monro, Ronald Keith
The day by day story of Tobruk. The leisure hours, the bombing and the wounded. Scenes of bomb damaged Tobruk. Sunken ships in Tobruk harbour. The wrecked Insect Class gunboat HMS Lady Bird and anti-a...F07001
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Transfer of Japanese from Kairiru Island to Muschu Island
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Maker: Eastman, David Tennant Gaery
Six hundred and fifty Japanese Naval personnel were transferred from Kairiru to Muschu Islands as part of 6th Australian Division plan to place all Japanese in British New Guinea on there. No further ...F07245
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Umamu creek advance along Buin Road, Bougainville
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Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
Squadron of the 2/4th Armoured Regiment, advance along the Buin Road following airstrikes by RNZAF and RAAF strafing along the axis of the road. Artillery and mortars supported the advance. Men of the...F01670
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1. US Navy dive bomber [Helldiver] 2. Jap planes blasted by US Navy guns 3. Diggers return home from Nazi prisons 4. Young Australian radio star entertains US troops. (News From Home No. 76)
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1. (55 sec) the new US Navy dive bomber, the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver 2. (1 min 25 sec) A Japanese attack on a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific is beaten off by the accuracy of the American gunners. T...F00768
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Victory and beyond (Australians at war)
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Death camps. Borneo. Hiroshima. Nagasaki POWs. Post War. United Nations. Korea Malaya. "A" Bomb tests. National Service Training. Vietnam. Prologue.F08011
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Victory in the Western Desert
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British 8th Army including 9th Australian Division at El Alamein, North Africa. Ranks and jeeps in sand and floods, Italian and German prisoners walking and in trucks, close up of German prisoners and...F00834
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Visits to war graves, Sandakan North Borneo and Bougainville
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Maker: Robertson, Graham Douglas
The 31st Australian War Graves Unit's work in British North Borneo and Bougainville, 1945-1947. Footage includes shots of: the township of Sandakan; local people; the waterfront; local craftwork; Aust...F03416
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[Voyages of HMAS Manoora circa 1945]
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Long shot panorama of harbour - many Landing craft moored along the wharf. A game of deck hockey aboard HMAS Manoora. Long shot views of islands. Me exercising throwing medicine ball on ship's deck...F03527
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War graves party leaves Bangkok for Burma Thailand Railway
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank Nicholson, George Harvey
On 22 September 1945, a party of sixteen, thirteen of whom had been POWs of the Japanese, left Bangkok by Japanese truck for Nakom Paton where they transferred to two trains and set out for the start ...F07346
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War in South West Pacific 1. Uncle Sam strikes from Guadalcanal 2. Buna mission captured
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
1. (2 min 30 sec) Solomon Islands, American strikes from Guadalcanal. Activity at Henderson Airfield. Phot. US Signal Corps, arranged by Frank Coffey, commentary by Jack Davey, Movietone News 2. (2 mi...F00826
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War in the Pacific
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Maker: SFU SFU
A SFU production made for the British Ministry of Information. A survey of the war in the Pacific from Pearl Harbour to the defeat of the Japanese in New Guinea by the Australians at Milne Bay and Bun...F01638
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We were ANZACs
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Maker: Porter, Brett Legg, Frank Hooper ATN Channel 7 The Shell Company Legg, Frank Hooper
Opens with the title "The Shell Company is proud to present this film record of a national TV Programme produced at the studios of ATN Channel 7 Sydney. Produced by Brett Porter. Written and presented...F10032
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With the Western Forces in Markham Valley
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Maker: Driver, Roy
Troops push onto Lae; general scenes of Lae. Airstrip and wreckage, in the township. Identified personnel; Private William of Bathurst, Brother Hall Red Shield officer.F01860