Filters
Collection
13 Results
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1. Airgraph mail saves space and time 2. MacArthur speaks. (News From Home. No. 82)
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1. (1 min 8 sec) What happens to an airgraph letter and the saving of space and time by using the process 2. (4 min 36 sec) General MacArthur speaks at a dinner with Prime Minister John Curtin at Parl...F00772
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[Airstrip construction, Noemfoor Island] (RAAF Batch 005)
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Maker: RAAF Cine Unit
Airstrip construction at Noemfoor Island showing No 62 Works Wing RAAF bulldozers and graders in operation. Local workers moving prefabricated metal airfield pieces. Airfield construction airmen throw...F02630
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1. Army postal service 2. Interview with Gene Tunney, world champion boxer 3. Bread for Naples. (News From Home No. 66)
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1. (1 min 26 sec) The story behind the Army postal service 2. (1 min 45 sec) Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxer, is interviewed by Fox Movietone on his arrival in Australia 3. (1 min 12 sec) The pe...F00759
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Biscuit bomber: the story of dropping (Combat Film Report No. 425)
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The history of aerial supply dropping in the SWPA Shows the problems associated with the dropping of supplies to forward troops by aeroplane. Identified personnel: Major Beck 54th Troop Carrier Wing, ...F01897
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First Lancastrian to land in Japan
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Maker: Cartledge, Ronald Selby
The first Lancastrian aircraft chartered by the RAAF from Qantas arriving at Iwakuni. O36 Air Vice Marshal John Patrick Joseph McCauley greets the crew. Mr Alex Gurney, passenger, originator of the Bl...F07473
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Leave day in Palestine. Camp mail
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
Shows troops at a remembrance service in the war cemetery at Jerusalem Palestine. Australian soldiers join in with Priests and civilians in a pilgrimage Stations of the Cross on Good Friday while othe...F01015
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Middle East mail
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Maker: Hurley, James Francis (Frank)
A propaganda film; Frank Hurley's synopsis; this film was made at the express wish of the GOC and the head of the Postal Services. There has been a great falling off in mail from Australia to the troo...F01219
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Morotai mail
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A Douglas C-47 Dakota transport aircraft of 37 Squadron, RAAF, on a mail run from Essendon, Victoria, to Morotai Island via Adelaide, Alice Springs, Darwin, Biak-Schouton Island. The route is shown on...F02076
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Plea "More letters from home"
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Maker: Parer, Damien Peter
A series of staged shots intended to be made into a short item for general release. A plea to the people of Australia to despatch more mail to the troops in New Guinea.F01823
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[RAAF Base Post Office] Postal No. 030
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Maker: RAAF Cine Unit RAAF Historical Records Section Cine Unit SEAC
Opens with interior shot of postal sorting room. Postal bin marked 'Pacific'. Shots of men and women sorting parcels and weighing mailbags. 'PMG Melbourne Aust.' on the mail bag. Scene change to truck...F02643
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RAAF bomber crews [No 13 Squadron RAAF]
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Maker: Bagnall, Frank N
These are the crews of Lockheed Hudson medium bombers of No 13 Squadron RAAF which successfully attacked three enemy ships (a warship and two other ships). Result one sunk, one probably sunk and one d...F01780
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RAAF in Western Desert
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Maker: Monro, Ronald Keith
The activities of 3 Squadron RAAF in the Western Desert. Shows Squadron personnel messing, the evacuation of casualities by air ambulance, ground crew servicing Kittyhawk aircraft and shots from a fl...F07002
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Signal story and mail service
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Maker: Barrett, Reginald Mervyn (Reg)
Jacquinot Bay, New Britain, two soldiers sorting bags of mail outside tent. Signaller climbing coconut palm 'telegraph pole'.F07177