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AIF return from Middle East
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
AIF on board troopships in Suez Canal area and at sea.F01217
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1. Army assault course 2. Training packhorses 3. Battle of the Solomons. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 14 No 1)
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1. (2 min 11 sec) Troops go through assault course with sound effects 2. (1 min 38 sec) Training packhorses 3. (2 min) Solomons battle, transports at sea, barges go into landing, American plane brough...F00375
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1. Army tests compressed foods 2. RAAF departure. (Cinesound News No. 517)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No. 517. 1. (1 min 44 sec) Food briquettes compressed under a compression of one ton contain a square meal. May be the answer of iron rations for paratroops. Vic...F00546
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Battle for Tunisia
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Title : Battle for Tunisia. This captured German film shows Italian fleet, Japanese submarine crew, and Rommel. Also seen is the landing of British forces and equipment, British convoy, and ships ab...F00815
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[Coastal Command Beaufighters operations] (Ops C12, C13)
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RAF Coastal Command operational film of attack by Beaufighter aircraft on German shipping. Opening scene of a Coastal Command airfield. Beaufighters taxiing on the airfield. Beaufighter aircraft code ...F02599
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Departure of the First Division AIF the original Anzacs in October 1914 (Edition 128). Australia's Navy (Edition 127). (Pathe's Animated Gazette Australasian Edition.)
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Maker: Pathe Company
Edition 128. Departure of the 1st Division AIF at Port Melbourne aboard the SS Hororata (A20) on October 1914. Shows the men waving from the troopship as she is towed out by a tug. Edition 127. HMAS...F03465
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Entraining, buying oranges etc. Suez
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Troops and army nurses on a troopship in Suez Canal and on railway station and train. Scenes with the Australian Light Horse Memorial in background.F01020
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[HMAS Canberra escorts 1st Convoy]
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Maker: Moran, William Thomas Alldis Moran, William Thomas Alldis
Several long shots taken from HMAS Canberra showing troopship of the first convoy transporting the 2nd AIF to the Middle East. The remainder of this item is probably out takes from F11472 William Tho...F04632
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HMAS Shropshire, convoy off New Guinea (News From Home No. 96)
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Extracts from News From Home No. 96. A convoy off New Guinea is escorted by HMAS Shropshire. Shows activities on board, ship to ship refuelling, ammunition hoisted aboard, Commodore Collins and crew p...F00787
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Indian troops reinforce Malayan defenders
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Singapore, Indian troops disembark from ships to trucks of the 8th Australian Division. Commentary by Peter Bathurst Cinesound Review.F00835
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Invasion of Sicily
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The Allied invasion of Sicily, code name Operation Husky, 2,000 Allied ships cross Mediterranean unopposed. Features Generals Montgomery, Eisenhower and Patton, also Admiral Cunningham. One scene show...F00808
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1. Japanese leave Australia 2. More reinforcements for troops overseas 3. Sydney blacks out. (Cinesound News No. 512)
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1. (1 min 32 sec) The Japanese ship, "Kasima Maru" takes almost 100 Japanese Nationals from Australia - probably the last ship to leave for a long time 2. (1 min 6 sec) A large batch of Australians an...F00541
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Local army contingent Young and Cowra area 1940-1941 / Gordon Mote
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Maker: Mote, Gordon
1. Local army contingent parade. Soldiers marching from their drill hall to the railway station at Young, NSW (B&W) 2. Mr Menzies in Young. Mr Menzies walking down Boorowa Street, Young. (Colour). 3....F03479
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Malta convoy
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Maker: British Movietone News
A condensed coverage of the August 1942 convoy to Malta. The overall operation was given the code name "Pedestal" while the actual convoy was numbered WS21S. Period of time covered by visuals and comm...F01290
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1. More Australians reach Middle East 2. Fugitive's mansion as Red Cross home 3. "Tommies" bring enemy internees (on the "Dunera") (Cinesound News No. 463)
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1. (1 min 24 sec) RAAF reinforcements, RAN and AIF leave Australia for the Middle East on transports 2. (1 min 31 sec) John Woolcott Forbes' home in Sydney is taken over by the Red Cross for injured s...F00505
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More RAAF air crews for England
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Mute copy of a newsreel item of RAAF aircrews on a pre-embarkation parade; airmen detraining from electric suburban train at Port Melbourne; general shots on wharf; aircrews embarking on merchant vess...F02046
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1. Navy escorts troops in Mediterranean 2. Despatch riders training, Vic. 3. Dutch hospital ship returns with wounded (Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No. 39)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 12 No. 39. 1. (53 sec) Naval vessels escort troopships in the Mediterranean (See also F01002 for Department of Information unedited footage) 2. (43 sec) A natur...F00310
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1. "Queen Mary" is palatial troopship 2. Cruiser "Shropshire" added to RAN 3. War - working mothers leave babies in safety. (News From Home No. 58)
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1. (1 min 4 sec) Scenes showing the "Queen Mary" as a troopship. Film shots of her six visits to Sydney were delayed for security reasons 2. (1 min 34 sec) "Shropshire" arrives from England to join th...F00751
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600 RAAF men home
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A newsreel item of RAAF personnel arriving home from the European war zone. Airmen disembarking from troopship. Parents, wives and friends greeting returned airmen.F02034
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1. Soldier wharfies load ships 2. An Easter message. (News From Home. No. 33)
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1. (1 min 26 sec) Troops are called in to load cargoes during a waterside workers strike (Cinesound) 2. (3 min 7 sec) Propaganda documentary on the world at war with a message from the church. (Moviet...F00728