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225 Results

  1. Activities in No 9 POW Camp New Britain

    Film

    Maker: Dolan, Samuel Murray

    Situated approximately twenty miles outside Rabaul, No 9 Group Camp holds some 10,000 Japanese POW. Scenes depict activities followed by the prisoners; administration inside the compound area is the r...

    F07425

  2. Activities of 1 Australian Port Construction Company, RAE at Balikpapan

    Film

    Maker: O'Halloran, John Frederick M

    During operation Oboe 2 the two approaches to the shipping wharf, 400 yards offshore, were destroyed. A temporary approach was made from welded steel pontoons. Film shows construction of a new wooden ...

    F07275

  3. Activities of 2 Australian Prisoner of War Reception Group & scenes and inspection at Changi POW camp by Lord Louis Mountbatten

    Film

    Maker: McKechnie, Frank

    Formation, embarkation and arrival of 2 Australian Prisoners of War (POW) Group at Singapore, whose task it was to receive and assist released prisoners of war: mainly 8th Division personnel. Scenes d...

    F07336

  4. Activities of Australian Women's Army Service in Lae New Guinea.

    Film

    Maker: Wood, Frederick Sydney

    Some 400 girls of the Australian Women's Army Service (AWAS) arrived in Lae in May 1945. Their job was to release men for service in operational areas. Scenes show girls at work as typists, clerks, dr...

    F07411

  5. [Activities of the 16 Battalion AIF New Britain]

    Film

    [Activities of the 16 Battalion AIF New Britain]

    F04772

  6. A day with the Garrison Engineer and Staff, Tura, Egypt 1941-42

    Film

    Maker: Unknown

    This item is composed of activities of unidentified British and New Zealand engineer units in the North African Campaign. The first part deals with the advance into Libya and then "A day with the Garr...

    F10035

  7. Advance on Kokoda

    Film

    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

  8. Advance on Sanananda

    Film

    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

  9. AIF in action in Malaya

    Film

    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

  10. AIF return from Malaya

    Film

    Maker: Bagnall, Frank N

    AIF return from Malaya after capitulation of Japan. A general coverage of troops relaxing and playing sport on board troopship. Some shots of a Bofors gun and crew and troops disembarking from troopsh...

    F01172

  11. Allied prisoners of war repatriated from Japan

    Film

    Maker: Unknown

    Australian and allied POW at Yokohama preparing for repatriation and shots of Australian prisoners of war (POW) on the American hospital ship 'Benevolence'. The footage is low contrast, yet there are ...

    F01441

  12. Allied victory

    Film

    Maker: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc

    An Encyclopaedia Britannica educational film covering the history of the Second World War commencing with the entry of the United States in December 1941. Introduction on camera by Louis L. Snyder, Ph...

    F03324

  13. America goes over

    Film

    Maker: United States Army Signal Corps

    Introduction reads: 'Official film of the Corps of Signals taken under action and service conditions in France. Especially released by the War Department to the Eastman Kodak Company for the 2nd Amer...

    F00169

  14. American forces liberate South Korea

    Film

    Maker: Driver, Roy

    Australian troops captured at Singapore in 1942 and liberated in Korea by Allied forces after Japanese capitulation. Film commences with aerial shots of Korean landscape, moves to a panning shot of f...

    F01244

  15. Anzacs take Viet Cong hospital DPR/TV/1225

    Film

    Maker: Ward, Peter Anthony

    ANZAC soldiers taking part in Operation Marsden have uncovered a large enemy hospital in the May Tao mountains, in north-eastern Phuoc Tuy Province. As soon as the news of the hospital reaches the hea...

    F04413

  16. A 1 RAR operation in Vietnam operation 'Kick-off'. DPR/TV/336

    Film

    Operation "Kick off" was a multi-battalion search and destroy operation with United States and South Vietnamese units. The Australians were transported to the Plain of Reeds by armoured personnel carr...

    F10095

  17. 1. Armoured division on parade 2. Newsbriefs: Lady Gowrie in Sydney - General Macarthur and PM in Melbourne. (Cinesound News No. 556)

    Film

    Maker: Cinesound

    Extracts from Cinesound newsreel No. 556. 1. (1 min 46 sec) American tanks demonstrate before a big parade which is inspected by Generals Blamey and Robertson 2. (35 sec) Sydney, NSW. Lady Gowrie tac...

    F00582

  18. [Arras, Bullecourt and Hindenburg Line] cuts for library

    Film

    Engineers demolishing houses. Interior of Arras Cathedral. German batteries shell Allied positions. Shelling of a recently captured village. German shells bursting in Arras and the effect. Austra...

    F00076

  19. Arrival of Australian paratroops at Singapore

    Film

    Maker: Nicholson, George Harvey

    In the afternoon of 9 September 1945, five C47 Dakota transport aircraft arrived over Singapore Island in formation and after circling the city, landed at the civil airport. They contained men of 1 Au...

    F07323

  20. Arrival of evacuated POW from Sumatra at Singapore

    Film

    Maker: Nicholson, George Harvey

    Although Sumatra had not yet been occupied by Allied troops, Dakota aircraft of RAF, RAAF, and Royal New Zealand Air Force started flying POW and internees to Singapore on 15 September 1945. By 17 Sep...

    F07341

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