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Aircraft machine guns and cannon: calibre .50 machine gun stripping and assembling
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Maker: United States Army Signal Corps
Official training film 1-260 War Department produced by the Signal Corps in collaboration with the chief of Air Corps. Begins with brief description of the .50 Calibre Browning and types of fixed and ...F02436
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Aircraft torpedo
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Maker: Brent Productions
RAF training film using animated drawings to show the main features and workings of the 18 inch Mk 12 aircraft torpedo. Includes footage of RAF Blenheim bomber.F02392
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Airmen train in hard school
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Maker: Cinesound
News item showing RAAF trainees at various types of physical training including a five mile cross-country race.F02024
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Air Training Corps
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound production for the RAAF with the co-operation of the Department of Civil Aviation. The story deals with some of the major aspects of the Air Training Corps (ATC) training and activities. Ide...F02204
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1. Anti-tank guns made in Australia 2. Air training corps has field day. (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 14)
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1. (1 min 41 sec) Anti-tank guns made in Australia go through their paces before being sent into battle 2. (2 min 12 sec) Air Training Corps members parade before Wing Commander Elliott, inspect bombe...F00337
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Anzac story: British Commomwealth Air Training Plan in Canada
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Maker: National Film Board of Canada
Calgary, Alberta Canada, January 1945: The men from "down under" of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan receive training and get their wings before returning home to be posted. Ten thousand Aus...F02111
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A2 Portable Photographic Laboratory
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Official War Department training film TF I-847 explaining the operation and use of the A2 portable photographic laboratory. Shows inspection prior to starting on a mission, selection of site, setting ...F02331
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Army-air co-operation
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Training film showing the co-operation of training between Army and RAAF. Students include RAAF and RNZAF pilots and Australian and Allied army officers. Shows the various operations involved for the ...F02074
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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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ATC's [Air Training Corps] birthday parade
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Air Training Corps (ATC) 21 Squadron, Melbourne University Squadron, held a second birthday parade. The Director of Air Training Corps, Group Captain R.R. Radford, M.M. inspected the parade, took the ...F02033
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1. Aussies return from Japanese occupied countries, yachting training for future airmen 2. Women at war - WAAAF (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 22)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 22 1. (1 min 43 sec) Aussies return from Japanese occupied countries, how or when, nobody tells. Yachting training for future airmen (air training corps) 2...F00345
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1. Beaufighter, Australian made 2. Plastic glass is modern miracle 3. Army beats NSW in rugby thriller 4. On location with the Rats of Tobruk 5. Army PT for women. (News From Home No. 94)
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1. (1 min 3 sec) The first Australian made Beaufighter is shown on its test flight 2. (1 min 36 sec) Plastic glass being made in Australia and its final use in aircraft turrets 3. (1 min 21 sec) Army ...F00785
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Beaufighters in action
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A short item showing RAAF Beaufighters of Operational Training Unit, Wagga Wagga in strafing practice; pilots briefed on tarmac; aircraft taking off and strafing.F02066
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Beaufighters, Wagga
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RAAF Wagga Wagga, circa 1940's. Tracking shots of line of Beaufighter aircraft of Nos 30 and 31 Squadron RAAF being serviced by mechanics. Crews briefed on training flight mission. Beufighters in line...F03325
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Bombers away
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound Review news item showing ground crews arming Beaufort bombers. WAAAF radio operators and parachute packers. Aircrews being instructed on abandoning aircraft procedures and ground control of ...F02018
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Bomb handling fusing and loading parts 1-6
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Maker: Signet Pictures Corporation Limited
An RAF training film produced by Signet Pictures Corporation on bomb handling and fuzing. Deals the 1000lb, 2000lb, 12,000lb bombs and 250lb depth charges at RAF operartional units from bomb dump to t...F02535
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Bombsight Mk XIV: bombing with the Mk XIV bombsight
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Maker: Science Films Ltd
A RAF official training film produced by Science films Ltd. Uses animated diagrams to illustrate the function and use of the bombsight, the imaginary release circle, the sight line, finding wind speed...F02489
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Camera gunnery
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A Official RAAF training film on camera gunnery. Shows the routine at an RAAF Gunnery School. Covers the loading of the camera gun in the aircraft turret and other procedures involved in flight exerci...F02349
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1. Chips off the Anzac block 2. Sinking of 'Yorktown' (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 41)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 41. 1. (2 min) Two thousand Victorian boy cadets learn from AIF instructors 2. (1 min 20 sec) Sinking of United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown ...F00363
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Cradle of the RAAF
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The Air Training Corps is the cradle from which flows the splendid young manhood of the Royal Australian Air Force. This film presents some of the history and much of the activities of No. 5 Wing West...F02701