The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
1. (2 min 24 sec) Griffith, NSW. Land Army girls at work on farms in the district 2. (1 min 31 sec) Cassino Monastery, the far famed museum of art, used by the Germans as a fortress in the Italian campaign, is bombed to clear the way for the Allied advance.
1. (3 min 49 sec) After attending a camp of disciplinary training, Land Army girls are sent to assist in vegetable growing, fruit picking and other aspects of farm work 2. (1 min 17 sec) Melbourne cr
1. (1 min 16 sec) Americans practice invasion tactics 2. (1 min 4 sec) Mass decoration of members of Netherlands Army for action in Timor 3. (1 min 37 sec) Girls train in aircraft construction, AWMS r
Extracts from News From Home No. 88. 1. (4 min 10 sec) Cassino, Italy is almost wiped out by a concentrated aerial bombardment. 2,000 tons of bombs were dropped on the town. However the Germans were w
1. (1 min 52 sec) American troops wounded at Guadalcanal are flown back to base hospitals (Movietone) 2. (2 min 32 sec) Troops learn to live off the land in Western Australia (Cinesound)
1. (3 min 54 sec) A new defence road linking the Eastern Seaboard with Darwin under construction 2. (58 sec) WAAAF learn the art of self defence. 3. (1 min 17 sec) Sydney, NSW. Alderman Crick opens th
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
