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RAAF convoy busters
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Maker: Cinesound
Cinesound news item featuring an attack on enemy shipping by Bristol Beaufighters of No. 455 Squadron RAAF. Commentator also mentions RAF pilots attacking enemy rocket sites. A few shots of pilots and...F02015
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RAAF investigate wartime Dakota crash
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Maker: RAAF Public Relations
The RAAF identifies wreckage of a RAAF C-47 Dakota which belonged to No.2 Medical Air Evacuation Transport Unit. This aircraft on a flight from Biak Island with 28 people aboard, crashed in the 14,000...F02799
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[RAAF Iwakuni 1948 & Korea 1950]
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Maker: Unknown
The film includes a street parade comprised of local population and military service personnel; the Australian base; scenes at the airfield; crew loading ammunition;crew unloading and carrying air car...F03391
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RAF coverage Caen (Ops T86 C/B 62)
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Maker: RAF Film Production Unit
Coverage of operations by aircraft of the Second Tactical Airforce (2nd TAF) and Bomber Command in the Caen area, Normandy in support of Operation Overlord. Mid air shots of RAF Boston aircraft of No ...F02596
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RAF operations on Imphal front (RAF B18)
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Maker: Goozee RAF Film Unit
Last week it was announced that the last Hurricane had been deliverd. They have fought in every theatre of the war all over the world. Today, comes news of these famous aircraft operating against the ...F02142
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Ronald Jensen: home movie taken during his service with 450 Sqn RAAF in the Middle East
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Maker: Jensen, Ronald John
Home movie relating to 27250 Leading Aircraftman Ronald John Jensen and his service with 450 Squadron RAAF. Scenes of Alexandria, Cairo and Middle East during Second World War, including camps, tents,...F11587
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Salvaging plane from sea
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Shots of German aircraft in surf at edge of beach being salvaged by Australian soldiers.F01231
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Siege of Tobruk
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Shot by Damien Parer, the first scenes of this film are of a coastal craft flying the flag of Palestine. Max the chief engineer was a German U boat commander in the First World War and is seen talkin...F01097
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South West Pacific Mail No. 2 (News From Home No. 51)
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A report on the general conditions in the islands in the form of a letter from a soldier to his father, read by Jack Davey, Movietone.F00745
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Strategic Port Moresby (Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 33)
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Maker: Fox Movietone News
Extracts from Fox Movietone News Vol. 13 No. 33. Port Moresby, New Guinea Australian and American forces in the region are shown for the first time. Aircraft take off and return from missions over Ja...F00355
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24th Australian Infantry Brigade's landing and advance on Labuan Island
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Maker: Driver, Roy
Landing and advance on Labuan Island by troops of 24th Aust. Infantry Brigade. They were supported by Matilda tanks from 2/9th Australian Armoured Regiment. An RAAF Airfield Construction Unit of 1st T...F01709
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[The bombing of Darwin and aftermath February-March 1942]
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Maker: Sheldon-Collins, Francis
Darwin, Northern Territory, February - March 1942. The scenes (although not in chronological sequence) were taken after the first raid on 19 February and before the second in Mitchell Street from outs...F04775
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The British Pacific Fleet in action 1945: Lieutenant Reynolds at Okinawa.
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Okinawa, circa April-May 1945. A mute newsreel of the ships and aircraft of the British Pacific Fleet in action.F03631
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There's gold on the battlefields
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
Salvaging material from the battlefield. Wrecked fuselage of German fighter, stacks of wrecked aircraft wings, tanks being stripped for parts, Egyptians salvage rubber pads from helmets etc.F01832
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The tragedy of Italy (News From Home No. 50)
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Propaganda documentary on Italy's part in the world conflict and a prediction of a sticky end for that country.F00744
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1. Thousands pay homage at funeral of General George 2. Darwin's Burma Road, first pictures of overland supply route. (Cinesound News No. 549)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News newsreel No 549. 1. (1 min 25 sec) Melbourne, Brigadier General George of the U.S. who met his death in an air crash, is buried with full military honours at Springvale C...F00575
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Tripoli [3 Squadron RAAF] / Leading Aircraftsman Ralph Courtier Wilkinson.
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Maker: Wilkinson, Ralph Courtier
Captured Luftwaffe Fieseler Storch liaison aircraft comes in to land. A parked Hawker Hurricane of 238 Squadron (Sqn) RAF (code KC-K). P-40 engine cowling panels off and engine idling. RAAF truck w...F00257
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Tunis, Malta, Sicily [3 Squadron RAAF] / Leading Aircraftsman Ralph Courtier Wilkinson
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Maker: Wilkinson, Ralph Courtier
Tunis, Tunisia, German war cemetery showing headstones. French graves. Locals waiting in front of the Credit Fancier d'Algerie et de Tunis. Street scenes. High angle of town. Airmen sightseeing. ...F00258