The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Extract from Nippon News newsreel covering the United States surrender at Corregidor, Manila Bay, Philippines. Japanese Navy and Army officers moving away from camera along mountain track. Officers standing around small table draped with white cloth. Japanese Army officer reading aloud from document. Long shot from mountain of US positions framed by a Japanese light infantry gun. Map of Corregidor showing place names in Japanese. Kindley Field airstrip showing aircraft wreck and burnt out jeep. Camera pans along airfield. High angle long shot framed by wheel of a field gun of Corregidor toward US positions before surrender. Map of Corregidor - pointer indicates Maxwell Keyes. Japanese guards and US POWs at Maxwell Keyes. US POWs carrying stores. US Navy personnel standing for the film camera on beach. US officers address men. US POWs cooking sheltered under tent. POWs bathing in the sea - barded wire silhouette in foreground. POWs bathing. High angle long shot of beach and [warehouse?] buildings. Malinta Tunnel area. Captured US small arms. POWs moving rifles supervised by Japanese guards. Entrance to the Malinta tunnel complex. Close up of date inscribed on concrete '1932' the year the tunnel was completed. Inside the tunnel showing the plant room and machinery. Three electric fans operating. Room with electrical equipment. US soldier carrying tray of food and drink through tunnel. Shower facilities. Americans making bed. Office room showing copying equipment. Stores in tunnel. Americans moving through tunnel. Tunnel hospital. Phillipino stretcher bearers moving patient supervised by US nurse. Hospital bunk beds and patients. Doctors examine patients. More hospital beds. Studies of patients in beds. Close up of US nurses. Nurses playing cards. Sign 'keep out' - probably a medicine store. Mess parade.
Movietone newsreel item comprising combat footage shot by United States Signal Corps photographers. Shows the intense street fighting in the battle for Manila. The city in flames from fires started by
Tobruk, Libya circa 1941. Activities at the 2/4th Australian General Hospital. Shows men bathing in the sea. Washing clothes in sea water. Soldier dressed in a towel filling sand bags infront of uncom
[Colour] Film opens with a number of shots of harbours, ships, islands bases and airstrip taken from a Beaufighter of No 93 Squadron RAAF probably on a flight from Kingaroy, QLD to Labuan Island circa
Western desert, North Africa circa 1941-1942, long shot of tent and parked P-40 Kittyhawk of No. 450 Squadron RAAF in background. Three shots of P-40s preparing to take off from desert airfield. Groun
A United States Army Photographic Agency film. From a very high angle panning the cargo ship HMAS Jeparit. The mission of the Jeparit is to supply the Australian forces in South Vietnam. She is comma
Singapore February 1942, shows street scene with abandoned motor vehicles. British light trucks driving through streets. Australian troops marching in a column watched by Japanese soldiers. Close ups
