[Voyages of HMAS Manoora circa 1945]

Accession Number F03527
Collection type Film
Measurement 49 min 33 sec
Object type Home movie
Physical description 8mm standard/b&w and colour (Kodachrome)
Place made Borneo: Tarakan, Japan: Hiroshima, Hiroshima, Japan: Kure
Date made 1945
Access Open
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
British Commonwealth Occupation Force, 1946-1952 (Japan)
Copyright Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial
Creative Commons License This item is licensed under CC BY-NC
Source credit to This item has been digitised with funding provided by Commonwealth Government.
Description

Long shot panorama of harbour - many Landing craft moored along the wharf. A game of deck hockey aboard HMAS Manoora. Long shot views of islands. Me exercising throwing medicine ball on ship's deck. Panoramas of islands. HMAS Diamantina signalling. Short Sunderland comes in to land. View of ships wake. Panorama of village huts along shoreline. A sunken ship nast and funnel visible above water. Longshot of shoreline. Army personnel on deck of Manoora. RAN ensign flying fron ship's mast. Group of three nursing sisters on ship's deck. Loading supplies into ship's hold by crane. Landing Craft Tank [LCT] No. 180 crowded with Army personnel. Troops boarding Manoora from LCT. DUKW approaches ship. Loading Willy's jeep onto the Manoora. Various shots of men on board Manoora. Long shot of other ships including an Assault Transport Ship and a RAN sloop. Views of shoreline. Troops on shore. Panorama of shoreline. Patrol boat in bay. Sailing dingy. Powered canoe. Native outrigger canoe. Landing Craft Infantry [LCI No. M4 and longshot of Landing Ship Tank]. At sea views of distant land. Sailors manning Bofors Anti-Aircraft gun. Men gathered around a car on deck. Long shot of LCI. Long shot of land. Scene from shore of HMAS Manoora and wrecked wharf and fuel pipes. Local people in town. Heavy Japanese dual barrel coastal dual purpose guns. [Colour begins] Buidings and lagoon. Driving past stacks of bombs or artillery shells. Japanese Sally bomber with green cross surrender markings. Japanese light transport in surrender markings. Single engine Japanese plane in surrender markings.

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