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Darwin troops depart
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Maker: Movietone News
Movietone News extract 'News Flashes' showing soldiers of the Darwin Mobile Force march through Sydney in tropical gear. Highland society presents force with four sets of bagpipes. Embarkation and se...F01917
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[Interview with Alex Baz (Images of Australia 'Decline and fall')]
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Maker: Braddon, Russell Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Interview with Alex Baz for the ABC Television programme Images of Australia conducted by Russell Braddon. Alex Baz talks about his experience of bombing of Darwin 19 February 1942.F00265
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Interview with Col Nowland (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr Nowland was a dairy farmer who enlisted in 1940 into the Darwin Infantry Battalion. In Darwin the troops performed guard duties and built roads. Mr Nowland was in Darwin when it was bombed and desc...F04039
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Interview with John Drennan (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Mr John Drennan was seven years old when the war broke out and describes his experiences while living near munitions plants and army camps in Adelaide. Mr Drennan remembers his school work which was ...F04099
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Interview with Ren De Garis (When the war came to Australia)
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Maker: Look Film Productions Pty Ltd Look Television Productions Pty Ltd
Interview with 39467 Sergeant Renfrey Curgenven De Garis. Mr De Garis talks about a Dad's Army which was created in Millicent after the war broke out. It was intended for people waiting to be called u...F04104
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1. Parents dig slit trenches for schools. 2. Kiddies slide to safety in raid shelters. 3. Air raid victims speak. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 11)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
1. (1 min 13 sec) School children join their fathers on Saturday afternoons to dig slit trenches. 2. (2 min 38 sec) Scarboro house children practice air raid precautions. 3. (5min) Survivors from firs...F00334
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1. RAAF strafe enemy ships. 2. Major-General Bennett speaks. 3. What of Japan ? (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 13)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone Vol. 13 No. 13. 1. (1 min 36 sec) Flight Lieutenant Truscott and other RAAF pilots in Spitfire aircraft strafe enemy shipping. 2. Major-General Bennett urges offensive sp...F00336