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Aerodrome construction Darwin
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Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
General coverage of aerodrome construction. Shots of carry all scoop, mobile stone crushing plant and graders.F01794
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[Airstrip construction, Noemfoor Island] (RAAF Batch 005)
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Maker: RAAF Cine Unit
Airstrip construction at Noemfoor Island showing No 62 Works Wing RAAF bulldozers and graders in operation. Local workers moving prefabricated metal airfield pieces. Airfield construction airmen throw...F02630
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China
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Maker: RAAF Historical Records Section Cine Unit SEAC
Kunming, China, street scenes, United States troops. Coolies carrying stone from quaries for airfield construction. Shots of United States Army Airforce and Chinese Nationalist Air Force Curtiss-Wrig...F02131
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Civil Construction Corps is the army behind the army (Cinesound News No. 555)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No. 555. On 12 February 1942 it was decided to turn twenty square miles of virgin country into an aerodrome. In just seventy one days the first plane landed at th...F00581
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Construction of airstrip, Tarakan
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Maker: McInnes, Hugh
General shots of No 1 and No 8 Airfield Construction Squadrons, RAAF, at work on the Tarakan airstrip. General shots of Dutch oil-field at Tarakan and wreckage.F01428
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Construction of roads and strips on Morotai Island
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Maker: O'Halloran, John Frederick M
Construction from crushed coral, of roads and strips for heavy traffic in Morotai. Also part of evacuation of wounded from Tarakan by Lockheed aircraft from Morotai Airstrip. Also identified: VX108852...F07249
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Development of Jacquinot Bay New Britain
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Maker: Anderson, Alan Frederick
Australian engineers in Jacquinot Bay area at bridge building, jetty and airstrip construction. Natives assisting construction work. American landing craft used for communications around bay area. Lan...F01265
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First Lancastrian to land in Japan
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Maker: Cartledge, Ronald Selby
The first Lancastrian aircraft chartered by the RAAF from Qantas arriving at Iwakuni. O36 Air Vice Marshal John Patrick Joseph McCauley greets the crew. Mr Alex Gurney, passenger, originator of the Bl...F07473
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Guadalcanal: America's first offensive (Crusade in the Pacific part 7)
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Maker: March of Time Television
United States March of Time television documentary using historic combat and newsreel footage. Covers the battle of Guadalcanal and the campaign in the Solomon Islands. Shows the amphibious landing at...F04959
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Island target
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Maker: Carty, William Montague Trerise, John William Coffey, Frank Bird, Walter Charles
This is a general release film produced by the Department of Information using historical film footage. For the purpose of continuity in this some scenes may be out of historical sequence, because of ...F01260
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Lae falls to Australians
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound newsreel story of the capture of Lae by 7th and 9th Divisions. (See also F01862 & F01860 for original Department of Information footage.)F01616
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Mission to Rabaul
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Maker: 5th Airforce Combat Camera Unit
Deals with the air war as conducted by the United States 5th Air Force in the New Guinea theatre culminating in the raid on Rabaul 12 October 1943 in which 326 fighters and bombers took part. Operatio...F01932
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Naval training and operations. Airfield construction [Extracts from Japanese newsreels]
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1. Japanese? women arrive in New Guinea. 2. Senior Japanese Officer visits troops in Java. 3. The Celebes, Indonesian sailors receive instruction on sailing ships. Sailors drill with signal flags. ...F06939
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[No 76 and No 34 Squadrons RAAF] (RAAF Batch 014)
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Maker: RAAF Cine Unit
Airfield at an unidentified location SWPA P-40 Kittyhawks of No 76 Squadron RAAF land at airfield (code SV-T & SV-J). Doulgas C-47 Dakota of No 34 Squadron RAAF (code FD-E) lands. RAAF ground crew wav...F02628
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[Noemfoor Island] (RAAF Batch 006)
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Maker: RAAF Cine Unit
Locations in this film are given when confirmed by dope sheets. Opens with shot of airfield. Religious service being conducted at the Vicarage. Noemfoor Island, No. 5 Bomb Disposal Unit conduct search...F02631
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Noemfoor Island (Southwest Pacific Series No.1)
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Maker: RAAF Cine Unit RAAF Cine Unit 1st TAF (47 OBU)
Produced by RAAF War History Section. Units of 1st Tactical Air Force (TAF) RAAF in action. Units and activities featured are: Reel 1 - No 5 Bomb Disposal Unit clearing land mines and unexploded bombs...F02154
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Nowra aerodrome construction
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Maker: Department of Main Roads
Department of Main Roads (DMR) film covering all the aspects of the construction of Nowra aerodrome. Film begins with a brief history of the war time work of the DMR in airfield construction. Shows th...F03003
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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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Preparation for Oboe 6 operation
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Maker: Hardy, Douglas Charles
No. 6 Airfield Construction Squadron RAAF stores and equipment being loaded on to Landing Ship Tank (LST) 699 at Blue Beach, Morotai, for Oboe 6 Operation. Shows bulldozer being driven up the loading ...F07217
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RAAF in the Philippines (South West Pacific Series No. 3)
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Chief of Air Staff (CAS) O31 Air Vice Marshal (AVM) George Jones CB, CBE, DFC visits Leyte and Mindoro, Philippines. Aerial shots of islands and convoys. On arrival the CAS is met by O34 Air Commodore...F02634