Naval training and operations. Airfield construction [Extracts from Japanese newsreels]

Accession Number F06939
Collection type Film
Measurement 16 min 9 sec
Object type Newsreel
Physical description 35mm/b&w/sound
Place made Netherlands East Indies: Celebes, Netherlands East Indies: Java, New Guinea1
Date made 1942
Access Open
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
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Description

1. Japanese? women arrive in New Guinea. 2. Senior Japanese Officer visits troops in Java. 3. The Celebes, Indonesian sailors receive instruction on sailing ships. Sailors drill with signal flags. Sailors rowing in longboat. Naval cadets in training. Japanese warships at sea and in action. (Indonesian narration). 4. Japanese and native workers labouring with hoes. Elephants used to move boulders and explosives to fell trees. 5. Andaman Islands, Japanese coastal artillery and searchlights. Andamanese labouring at a quarry. Bulldozers and elephants used in airfield construction. (Indonesian narration). 6. Activities at a Japanese observation tower on coastal survelliance.

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