The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
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) Somewhere in Australia, American troops honour fallen comrades in the American equivalent of Anzac Day. 3. (3 min 20 sec) On the night of 7/8 June 1942 Sydney was shelled by the Japanese submarine I-24. Interviews with residents of the houses hit.
1. (2 min 27 sec) Interviews with some of the survivors of HMAS "Canberra" on return to their homes. 2. (2 min 15 sec) An Aussie dog joins the Yanks as mascot and goes to town on leave. 3. (3 min 57 s
1. (1 min 22 sec) Interview with Major-General Lethbridge pledging British support in the war against Japan (Cinesound) 2. (1 min 46 sec) Tivoli ballet girls give dancing display and thousands of pige
Extracts from Cinesound newsreel No. 556. 1. (1 min 46 sec) American tanks demonstrate before a big parade which is inspected by Generals Blamey and Robertson 2. (35 sec) Sydney, NSW. Lady Gowrie tac
Extracts from Cinesound news No. 46. 1. (3 min) Ten American journalists come to get first hand information about Australia's war effort 2. (1 min 50 sec) Sydney Red Cross collects gold articles which
1. (1 min 24 sec) RAAF reinforcements, RAN and AIF leave Australia for the Middle East on transports 2. (1 min 31 sec) John Woolcott Forbes' home in Sydney is taken over by the Red Cross for injured s
1. (1 min 36 sec) Compares 4, 8 and 12 thousand pound bombs, loading onto Lancaster aircraft and night scene of bombing over Europe 2. (36 sec) On Bougainville, a large American 155mm Howitzer is dest
