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Paratroops Nadzab
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Maker: Driver, Roy
The first Australian troops to go by air to Nadzab, New Guinea, landing just after its capture by Allied forces. Identified personnel: Sir Thomas Blamey, Bill Taylor of Brisbane, adjutant Paul Hall o...F01868
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Places of interest in Australia 1942-1943
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Maker: Hohmann, Franklin P (Frank)
I fell in love with Australia, thought I would like to live there after the war was over. This film was taken to convince my future wife. Things didn't work out because of outside influences. My comb...F04940
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Port Moresby to Buna-Sanananda
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Maker: Rintel, David Leslie Wood, Frederick Sydney
A general coverage of activities of Australian and American forces between Port Moresby-Kokoda-Sanananda. Subjects covered include scenes along Kokoda Trail; supply dropping, re-entry of Kokoda by Aus...F07546
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Presentation of American Bronze Star Medal
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Maker: Nicholson, George Harvey
At a presentation held near the mess of the Commander in Chief, AMF, at Advanced Land Forces Headquarters (Adv LHQ), Morotai, eight Australian officers, including three Australian Army Nursing Service...F07387
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1. Red Cross train brings Darwin wounded 2. Aboriginal children refugees from bombs 3. Nurses escape from Singapore 4. American Admiral of Anzac area interviewed. (Cinesound News No. 542)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No 542. 1. Red Cross train brings Darwin wounded. Interviews with patients on their arrival in the South. 2. Aboriginal children refugees from bombs. Children fro...F00568
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Reginald Evans recalls the rescue of PT-109, 2 August 1943
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Maker: NBC
A kinescope recording on 16mm film of an item from the NBC televsion's Jack Paar Program on the PT-109 commanded by Lieutenant John F Kennedy the then current President of the United States of America...F03487
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Sanananda falls: Japs cleared from Papua
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Papua, Australian and American troops take Sanananda. (See also F01847 and F01848 for unedited Department of Inforamtion footage).F00827
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Services stage boxing show (News From Home. No. 67)
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United States Navy (USN) and Australian Army stage an interservice boxing match at the Melbourne stadium. Commentary by Jack Davey.F00760
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South West Pacific Mail No. 2 (News From Home No. 51)
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A report on the general conditions in the islands in the form of a letter from a soldier to his father, read by Jack Davey, Movietone.F00745
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1. Survivors from torpedoed ships reach safety 2. US troops honour fallen comrades on Memorial Say 3. Subs shell Sydney. (Cinesound News No. 554)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News No. 554. 1. (1 min 43 sec) Interview with the survivors of the Iron Chieftain, first ship to be sunk off the NSW coast on the night of 3/4 June 1942. 2. (1 min 36 sec) So...F00580
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Team work in Allied air operations
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Newsreel item on Lieutenant-General George H. Brett, USAAF Commander Allied Air Forces Australia and SWPA, seated in office, introduces his staff: Air Vice Marshal W.D. Bostock, CB, OBE, RAAF Chief of...F02047
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1. Team work in allied air operations 2. Training airmen 3. USA V Australia in baseball 4. Servicemen enjoy breezy hospital show. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 24)
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1. (1 min 20 sec) Lieutenant-General Brett introduces his chiefs, air Vice-Marshal Bostock and Brigadier General Ralf Royce, US. 2. (1 min 25 sec) Young air training corps cadets inspect US aircraft 3...F00347
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5th Australian Division meets Yanks
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Advance of 8th Australian Infantry Brigade towards Saidor, New Guinea. Troops of the 30th Australian Infantry Battalion wading waist deep through a tidal creek at Weber Point. Men of the 30th Bn mov...F07110
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The battle for Buna
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Movietone News item compiled from Department of Information footage (AWM films F01810 & F01813) with supporting scenes of US origin.F00385
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The unnecessary war
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Maker: Australian Broadcasting Commission
Documentary featuring historical footage of Australian troops in the last campaigns against the Japanese in Borneo and Bougainville. Interviews with veterans, politicians, historians and Ian Charlton,...F03345
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9th Fighter Sqn USAAF
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Maker: Wandrey, Ralph
The 9th Fighter Squadron USAAF camp at Dobodura. Flight line at Dobodura airfield. North American B25 Mitchell bomber landing at Dobodura. Harry Lidstrom standing beside Republic P47 Thunderbolt. Shot...F03387
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1. Thousands pay homage at funeral of General George 2. Darwin's Burma Road, first pictures of overland supply route. (Cinesound News No. 549)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No 549. 1. (1 min 25 sec) Melbourne, Brigadier General George of the U.S. who met his death in an air crash, is buried with full military honours at Springvale C...F00575
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United States Air Corps (Darwin Series, 12)
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
The 49th Fighter Group USAAF stationed in Darwin area. Aircraft flying in formation, low flying for anti-aircraft defence practice. Personality shots of American fighter pilots. Names in order of shot...F01187
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United States Army manoeuvres, Brisbane
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American Army training in amphibious landings on the Queensland Coast. Assault boats towed by Australian motor boats close inshore, slipped; then assault boats are paddled in by troops. American troop...F01691
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United States Marines march through Melbourne
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Maker: Military History Section
Short coverage of United States Marines march through Melbourne, Victoria. General Sir Thomas A Blamey in background.F07041