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After Darwin raid [RAA Coastal Defence Battery] (Darwin series, 4)
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
RAA Coastal Defence Battery. Naval type gun is loaded, aimed and fired from camouflaged emplacement. Battery's anti/aircraft defence, .50 Browning heavy machine gun is loaded and fired.F01177
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Attack
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Maker: United States Department of War
The battle for New Britain a United States War Department production photographed by the United States Signal Corps and USAAF. Shows scenes at the 'Overpower' Task Force three staging areas including ...F01928
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Behind the guns
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Maker: Merton Park Studios
Workers make Bren guns, large gun barrels, shells, ammunition, tanks, aircraft and ships. Shows naval guns firing, tank trials, and Spitfire aircraft flying.F01473
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Feldzug in Polen = Campaign in Poland
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Maker: Hippler, Fritz Windt, Herbert Deutsche Filmherstellungs und Verwaltungsgesellschaft
German propaganda film in a documentary style on the invasion of Poland, September 1939 using combat footage. Opens with statement of Polish armed strength and war aims showing various arms and equipm...F01968
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Firepower
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Maker: Brown, Kerry Coffey, Denis Cross, Paul Fraser, Andrew Harris, Bob Visikovich, Peter Ward, James Nance, Ian Film Australia
A Head Quarters Training Command film produced by Film Australia. The objective of the film is to show the firepower of the major weapons available on the land battlefield to the Australian Army. Sh...F04902
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Fleet Bombardment
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Maker: RAN Public Relations
Ships of the Royal Australian and Royal New Zealand navies firing at sea. Shows the cruiser HMNZS Royalist under way and firing main armament. 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft gun firing on the cameraman's s...F11197
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[German home front, Western front and Eastern front, 1944] (Die Deutsche Wochenschau 49/50 1944) = (The German newsreel 49/50 1944)
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Maker: Die Deutsche Wochenschau
German newsreel c late 1944. Commentary in German. Items covered: 1. Magicians perform for wounded soldiers and hospital staff. Otto Rodewald Ritterkreuz winner, had destroyed five Soviet tanks with a...F01966
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Going north
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Maker: Netherlands East Indies Film Unit
A Department of Information propaganda film produced by the Netherlands East Indies Film Unit on the Allied invasion of Japanese occupied Morotai. The Morotai Task Force comprised of United States Arm...F01380
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Gun practice practice on ship, street scenes
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Maker: Leithhead, David Stirling, James Belton
Shots taken en route to India on board MV Penrith Castle. The shots taken show Royal Navy and Royal Artillery personel operating the 4 inch gun astern at smoke-float targets. The Oerlikon gun practic...F02147
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HMAS Shropshire
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Maker: Driver, Roy
In April 1944 HMAS Shropshire, as a unit of Task Force 74, took part in escorting convoys up the coast of New Guinea and the bombardment of Hollandia and after the landing at Hollandia, escorting US a...F01760
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[HMAS Sydney, 1941] / B Shilkin
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Maker: Shilkin, Berny Nathan
Scenes from aboard HMAS Sydney taken a few months before her loss on 19 November 1941. Catapult launch of HMAS Sydney's Supermarine Walrus amphibious biplane reconnaissance aircraft. Firing 4-inch Hi...F00186
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HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 11 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
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Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage begins with seawater then to port side hull near X turret and around X and Y turrets, passing over the wreck to starboard 4" high-angle anti-aircraft gun (S2) and starboard hull then to starbo...F08963
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HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 1 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
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Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage is of seawater as the ROV is being lowered to the seabed. Then to ship's break and heading towards B turret. No visible onscreen timecode.F08953
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HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 3 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
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Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage becomes clearer and begins with the break in ship towards a close up of A turret with twin 6" Mark XXIII guns, inside the break of the ship and debris on the seabed near the break of the ship....F08955
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HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 7, Part 1 of 1 (The search for the Sydney)
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Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes boat crutches near stern of ship, good images of the stern then along the starboard side up to B turret then back aft towards stern. The ROV moves quite quickly through this dive. Vis...F08965
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HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 1, Part 2 of 2 (The search for the Sydney)
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Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
The water is clear but the ROV would not move from the garage, rather than waste hours bringing the garage back to the surface, the dive was treated as a reconnaissance mission to take whatever footag...F08952
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HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 5 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
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Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes B turret, looking toward and around as well as inside the turret then towards the Bridge and Director Control Tower (DCT) as well as the base of the High Angle Control Station (HACS) ...F08957
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HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 1, Part 1 of 2 (The search for the Sydney)
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Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
During the footage, the water is clear but the ROV would not move from the garage, rather than waste hours bringing the garage back to the surface, the dive was treated as a reconnaissance mission to ...F08951
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HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 9 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
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Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage begins around the rails of the stern and looks down and around the stern of the ship moving to starboard side viewing the hull, quarterdeck and Y turret from starboard side then to the propell...F08961
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HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 4 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
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Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes seawater then focuses on the break of ship and to A turret with close up around and inside A turret as well as the damage to the front of A turret. No visible onscreen timecode.F08956
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HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 2 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
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Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage includes seawater then towards B turret and A turret briefly before more seawater. No visible onscreen timecode.F08954
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HMAS Sydney Wreck- Dive 2, Part 7 of 12 (The search for the Sydney)
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Maker: HMAS Sydney Search Pty Ltd as Trustee for the Finding Sydney Foundation Mearns, David
Footage begins with port side of aft search platform then moves towards X turret then Y turret and quarterdeck over stern towards the propellers on port side then heading forward along the port side h...F08959
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Invasion of Leyte, Philippines
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On 20 October 1944 the United States 6th Army invaded Leyte, Philippines, landing on the east coast in vicinity of Tacloban, the capital. Two firm beach heads were established. On 21 October 1944 US A...F01704
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It's the Navy
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Maker: Hendy, Les Dearth, Harry Smart, Ralph Brereton, E J
Propaganda short produced by the Commonwealth Cinema Branch Studios Melbourne on the training of naval recruits at HMAS Cerberus, Flinders Naval Depot.F01361
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Landing at Wewak
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Maker: Edwards, Reg J
Preparations and action on board HMAS Hobart while firing on enemy positions in Wewak area. Commodore Harold Bruce Farncomb on bridge of HMAS Hobart.F01735
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Loading and laying (6" naval gun)
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A military training film produced for the Directorate of Army Kinematography by Publicity Films Ltd. This film illustrates the individual duties of 6" Naval coastal gun crew-members as to loading and ...F05260
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Merchant seamen
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A Department of Information Production distributed by Metro Golden Mayer. The players in this film are British officers and Merchant Seamen the narrator being one of the crew represented. A propaganda...F01479
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Naval bombardment of Cape Gloucester
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Units of the Australian and American navies take part in the pre-landing bombardment of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, under the flag of Rear Admiral Victor A C Crutchley, DSC commanding Her Majesty's ...F01857
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Naval bombardment of Japanese position by HMAS Vendetta
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Maker: Wood, Frederick Sydney
Coverage of HMAS Vendetta bombarding Japanese positions in the Matapau area. Army and Air Force officers observing targets. VX22526 Lieutenant John Edward Gwillim (?).F07170
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1. Number 1 pin up girl 2. Allies attack in New Guinea and the Solomons (News From Home. No. 59)
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1. (1 min 42 sec) June Myer, the sweetheart of the forces (Cinesound) 2. (2 min 47 sec) Allied air and sea attacks in New Guinea and at Guadalcanal (Movietone)F00752
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Old cannons fired at Garden Island
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Maker: RAN Public Relations
Old cannons fired at Garden IslandF11224
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On the gunline
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Maker: RAN Public Relations
The Royal Australian Navy guided missile destroyer HMAS Perth at war in Vietnam and was filmed during her second deployment, September 1968 to April 1969. The film depicts the routine of war for the ...F10296
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Preparation for action (6" naval gun)
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A military training film produced for the Directorate of Army Kinematography by Publicity Films Ltd. This film illustrates the duties of each crew-member of the Coastal Naval Gun in its preparation fo...F05259
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1. Survivors from torpedoed ships reach safety 2. US troops honour fallen comrades on Memorial Say 3. Subs shell Sydney. (Cinesound News No. 554)
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Maker: Cinesound
Extracts from Cinesound News No. 554. 1. (1 min 43 sec) Interview with the survivors of the Iron Chieftain, first ship to be sunk off the NSW coast on the night of 3/4 June 1942. 2. (1 min 36 sec) So...F00580
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The Army lays the rails
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A British Ministry of Information film on railway companies of the Corps of Royal Engineers showing training, equipment and application of methods pertaining to all sections of railway maintenance and...F01648
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The Australians' final campaign in 1918
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Maker: Baldwin, Herbert Frederick Wilkins, George Hubert
After the third battle of Ypres in September 1917 the Australians were put in to hold the Messines Wytschaete sector and to prepare defences against the expected German spring offensive. The German of...F00018
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The Free French Navy
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The story of the Free French Navy in Britain. Frenchmen escaping to Britain across the channel. Volunteers at Free French Naval HQ London. Scenes at training depots. The officer cadet ship "President ...F01486
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The story of HMS Vindictive at Ostend {sic}
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Some of the ships and personnel involved in attacks upon the German submarine bases at Zeebrugge and Ostende in April and May 1918. HMS Vindictive was severely damaged in the Zeebrugge raid and was t...F00078
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Tobruk action 1941
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
The Tobruk area in which the British Forces had imprisoned a garrison of 25,000 troops was protected by two formidable rings of defence, an outer perimeter of stone fortifications protected by mines, ...F01063
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1. US Navy dive bomber [Helldiver] 2. Jap planes blasted by US Navy guns 3. Diggers return home from Nazi prisons 4. Young Australian radio star entertains US troops. (News From Home No. 76)
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1. (55 sec) the new US Navy dive bomber, the Curtiss SB2C Helldiver 2. (1 min 25 sec) A Japanese attack on a US aircraft carrier in the Pacific is beaten off by the accuracy of the American gunners. T...F00768