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1. Australian built Austen gun is hard hitting 2. US carrier in spectacular sea - air battle. (News From Home. No. 24)
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Maker: News from Home
Extracts from News From Home No. 241. (1 min 38 sec) The Austen gun, an Australian adaption of the Sten, goes through its paces at Port Kembla, NSW. 2. (3 min 10 sec) An American aircraft carrier is s...F00720
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Business girls display form - the traffic stops. (News From Home No. 10)
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Maker: News from Home
Martin Place, Sydney, NSW. Physical culture display by business girls in aid of the war effort. Remarks by Jack (Pukka Sahib) Davey.F00707
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1. In the wake of Rommel 2. The battle for Stalingrad. (News From Home No. 22)
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Maker: News from Home
Extracts from News From Home No. 22. Victory at El Alamein, through Hellfire Pass and on to Bardia and Tobruk (See also F01833 for unedited Department of Information footage)2. (2 min 44 sec). Russi...F00718
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1. Japs blasted back from airfield 2. Solomons, captured Jap aviators off to detention camp 3. War on the roof of New Guinea. (News From Home No. 26)
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Maker: News from Home
Extracts from News From Home No. 261. (2 min 36 sec) The battle for Wau, 25 pounder guns and Beaufighter aircraft in action (See also F01820 for Department of Information unedited footage). (58 sec) J...F00722
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1. Land Army girls in the front line 2. How Cassino monastery met its end. (News From Home No. 83)
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Maker: News from Home
1. (2 min 24 sec) Griffith, NSW. Land Army girls at work on farms in the district 2. (1 min 31 sec) Cassino Monastery, the far famed museum of art, used by the Germans as a fortress in the Italian cam...F00773
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Rickenbacker returns after Pacific ordeal. (News From Home. No. 23.)
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Maker: News from Home
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker returns in rescue plane (Catalina aircraft) after 21 days adrift at sea and tells of his experiences. Commentary by Ernest Walsh, Fox Movietone International.F00719
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They march again (News From Home. No. 35)
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Maker: Cinesound News from Home
Anzac Day ceremonies and crowds, commentary by Squadron Leader George Randall, DFC and BAR.F00730
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1. Troops preserve the spirit of the turf 2. Diversion for diggers (Waratah concert party) (News From Home No. 36)
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Maker: Department of Information Movietone News News from Home
Extracts from News From Home newsreel compile No. 361. (1 min 44 sec) Australian troops hold a race meeting somewhere in Australia (Picture Department of Information - Sound Movietone) 2. (5 min 26 s...F00731
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US Carrier [USS Enterprise] in epic fight for life (News From Home No. 21)
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Maker: News from Home
This film has been identified as being taken during the battle of the Eastern Solomons 24 August 1942. The majority of the film deals with the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise and the three bombs that ...F00717
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1. Vale - Truscott 2. Yanks and Aussies in rodeo rough-house 3. British Army technical units here to assist 4. US Army review - the Marines on Guadalcanal. (News From Home. No. 31)
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Maker: News from Home
1. (59 sec) Funeral of Squadron Leader "Bluey" Truscott 2. (1 min 32 sec) Brisbane, Queensland. Australians and Americans participate in a combined rodeo (Cinesound) 3. (1 min 39 sec) British Army tec...F00726
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Wounded heroes return home. Generals Blamey and Eichelberger in New Guinea (News From Home No 20)
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Maker: News from Home
Extracts from News From Home No 20. First Australian troops to be wounded in action are shown disembarking in Australia and are interviewed as they are transferred to a hospital train. General Blamey ...F00716