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Air defence building in the West (DPR RAAF stock shots)
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Maker: RAAF Public Relations
Learmonth, Western Australia circa 1971-1973. No 5 Airfield Construction Squadron (ACS) RAAF re-building and up-grading the old wartime airstrip. Shows aerial views of Learmonth, personnel of 5 ACS RA...F10441
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Air defence build-up in the west
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The RAAF No. 5 Airfield Construction Squadron has been set the task of re-building and upgrading the old wartime air strip at Learmonth for completion later this year so that Australia's defence of th...F02817
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Army builds airstrip DPR/TV/1609
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Maker: Garrett, Richard
On sleepy Lord Howe Island 480 miles east of Sydney Army engineers are pressing ahead with the building of a 3.300 foot emergency airstrip for use when the flying regular flying boat service ends. Hea...F04749
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Army builds airstrip DPR/TV/1609
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Maker: Defence Public Relations (DPR)
On sleepy Lord Howe Island, 480 miles east of Sydney, NSW, Army engineers are pressing ahead with the building of a 3,300 foot emergency airstrip for use when the regular flying boat service ends. Hea...F04657
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Army builds Lord Howe Island airstrip DPR/TV/1604
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Maker: Defence Public Relations (DPR)
Sixty Army engineers have been given the task of building an emergency airstrip on Lord Howe Island, because a flying boat service will close down after twenty one years of operations. The engineers, ...F04654
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Lord Howe Island Airstrip DPR/TV/1604 & 1629 (DPR/S/165)
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Maker: Garrett, Richard
At Lord Howe Island the tiny New South Wales tourist resort out in the Pacific Ocean Army Engineers are ploughing ahead with the building of an airstrip replacing the famous Ansett flying boat service...F04750
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RAAF starts build-up of Learmonth airfield
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The first stage in the development of the RAAF airfield at Learmonth Western Australia began with the first Hercules-load of equipment to land at the base. The equipment and men of the RAAF's No. 5 Ai...F02779
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Western air defence build-up
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The RAAF's new $12.5 million airfield at Exmouth Gulf in Western Australia took a further step towards reality with the completion of the concreting phase which was celebrated by the men of No. 5 ACS ...F02820