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Activities in No 9 POW Camp New Britain
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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
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Activities of 1 Australian Port Construction Company, RAE at Balikpapan
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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
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Activities of 2 Australian Prisoner of War Reception Group & scenes and inspection at Changi POW camp by Lord Louis Mountbatten
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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
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Activities of Australian Women's Army Service in Lae New Guinea.
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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
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[Activities of the 16 Battalion AIF New Britain]
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[Activities of the 16 Battalion AIF New Britain]F04772
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A day with the Garrison Engineer and Staff, Tura, Egypt 1941-42
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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
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Advance on Kokoda
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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
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Advance on Sanananda
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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
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AIF in action in Malaya
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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
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AIF return from Malaya
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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
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Allied prisoners of war repatriated from Japan
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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
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Allied victory
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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
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American forces liberate South Korea
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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
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1. Armoured division on parade 2. Newsbriefs: Lady Gowrie in Sydney - General Macarthur and PM in Melbourne. (Cinesound News No. 556)
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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
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Arrival of Australian paratroops at Singapore
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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
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Arrival of evacuated POW from Sumatra at Singapore
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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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Aussies in Germany, RAAF in Brussels
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
Australian airman in Germany; Australian and Allied POW in Stalag 357 and Stalag II B and in United Kingdom; RAAF vs BLA rugby, Brussels. Australian airmen with No 175 RAF Hawker Typhoon Squadron in G...F01274
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25 Australian Infantry Battalion in action Slater's Knoll
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Maker: Kinna, Darrell
Early in the morning of 5th April, in South Bougainville, a sizeable enemy force attacked the HQ 25th Australian Infantry Battalion and a platoon of "C" Company. Sixty men were cut off from their comm...F07191
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Australian paratroops at Labuan and Singapore
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Maker: Nicholson, George Harvey
The advance detachment of 1 Australian Paratroop Battalion, AIF, approximately one hundred and twenty men, were flown to Labuan from Cairns, QLD, in preparation for being called to Singapore. It was t...F07324
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Australian POW at 10 Cycle Camp, Batavia
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Maker: McKechnie, Frank
Scenes of Australian Army, Navy and Air Force personnel at 10 Cycle Camp. All these POWs were flown back to Singapore. Sapper Newman, 8 Australian Division Engineers, showing his well patched slouch h...F07342
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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
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Drive against the Japanese up the Markham and Ramu valleys
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Maker: Driver, Roy
General coverage of the drive against the Japanese up the Ramu and Markham River valleys, New Guinea. Shows the every day activities of the troops. Identified personnel: Church of England Padre H No...F01853
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Dumping of Japanese ammunition in Blanche Bay, Rabaul
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Maker: Thain, Ernest Robertson
Japanese troops, under the direction of Australian forces, dump ammunition into Blanche Bay in accordance with the surrender terms. Film shows hand grenades, 4.5 shells, one hundred pound bombs and ....F07357
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[Eastern Front, Monte Cassino and Luftwaffe night raids on London, 1944] (Die Deutsche Wochenshau) = (The German newsreel)
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Maker: Die Deutsche Wochenschau
German newsreel circa early 1944. Items covered: 1. Winter on the Eastern front, Stug III Assault gun, Panzer Grenadiers, PzKpfW VI Tiger tanks, Soviet POWs, land mine clearance, knocked out Soviet T-...F01995
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Eichelberger presents money belt to natives
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Maker: Driver, Roy
Studies of Japanese Prisoners of War (POWs), a group of Eurasian women and children in European clothes. Lieutenant-General Eichelberger presents money belt to Saluver Librak.F01870
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El Alamein area, Mr Casey's visit to El Alamein, El Alamein Railway Station, 450 Squadron in the Western Desert
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Maker: Military History Section
Various scenes of battlefield with wrecked tanks and vehicles in desert country near the Hills of Jesus. Three soldiers examine captured Italian 20mm Breda gun. Valentine tank at Tank HQ. Men of the 2...F07016
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El Alamein, armoured cars, anti aircraft gunners, prisoners, hospital train
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Maker: Military History Section
El Alamein area, 1942. Armoured cars in desert country. Anti aircraft gun and crew. Men cooking meal over a petrol stove. Signals unit laying out telephone cable from utility. Group of soldiers run to...F07021
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El Alamein, captured enemy equipment
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Maker: Military History Section
El Alamein area, 1942. Captured enemy equipment. Enemy planes overhead. Wounded in ambulances. Burial service. Italian POWs. Italian war graves. Tanks moving up. Work carried out on Bren Carriers at a...F07018
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El Alamein, Dabaa wounded & field hospital
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Maker: Military History Section
Australian Army Band playing outdoors. Stretcher bearers and truck outside of Field Hospital tents. Tower, store sheds, platform and railway lines at Dabaa Station with four-wheel railway truck, railw...F07017
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Evacuation of first Australian POW by sea from Singapore
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Maker: Nicholson, George Harvey
Scenes on Singapore wharf as the first Australian prisoner of war (POW) from Changi and other Singapore POW Camps arrive to embark on HMAS Manunda, a Hospital Ship, to be taken to Australia. Approxima...F07322
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Exhibition of Ju Ken Jitsu by Japanese prisoners of war
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Maker: Barrett, Reginald Mervyn (Reg)
At Timbali Surrender Camp, Labuan, Japanese prisoners gave a demonstration of bayonet fighting. The contestants are dressed in thickly padded suits, head piece with wire mesh front and thick gloves. W...F07408