The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
German newsreel c late 1944. Commentary in German. Items covered: 1. Magicians perform for wounded soldiers and hospital staff. Otto Rodewald Ritterkreuz winner, had destroyed five Soviet tanks with a Panzerschreck (anti tank rocket launcher) but forgoes the sixth to work as an industrial draughtsman. 2. Reicharbeitdienst (Reich Labour Service) undergo military training. 3. Marinerkampfschwimmer, (navy divers) train to attack ships. 4. Eastern Front, a merchant ship convoy and heavy cruiser shelling Soviet forces on shore. 5. Western Front, downing of USAAF P-38 Lockheed Lightning by German anti aircraft batteries. On the fuselage of the P-38 is written 'Pilot Captain L E Aubrey, Crew Chief Schoenbeck, Assistant Christensen'. Also in this item German infantry, including a Panzerschreck section and Nebelwefer rocket artillery battery in action. 6. Winter fighting in the Vosges Mountains, France, includes scenes of a Sturmpanzer Brummbär assault gun in action.
German newsreel circa early 1944. Items covered: 1. Winter on the Eastern front, Stug III Assault gun, Panzer Grenadiers, PzKpfW VI Tiger tanks, Soviet POWs, land mine clearance, knocked out Soviet T-
German newsreel circa 1944. German language commentary. Items covered: 1. Nazi leaders at May Day celebrations. 2. A womens fashion parade. 3. Bicycle race in Berlin. 4. Youths of the Arbeitdienst in
German newsreel c September 1944. German language commentary. Items covered: 1. Hitler Youth members of the Landienst (land army) learn agriculture and animal husbandry as part of a 10 year project fo
German newsreel circa March 1944. Commentary in German. Items covered: 1. 'Personality of the week', the German writer von Muenchausen at his castle in Altenburg. 2. Mediterranean, aqualung diver and
A collection of German newsreels extracts and a travelogue c June 1941 covering the following topics. 1. Troops of the Waffen SS placing flowers on their dead comrades graves. 2. The German Army's adv
One of three Super 8 films taken by 213865 Sergeant (Sgt) Roy (Doc) Savage during his first tour in Vietnam with the 7th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment between 1967 and 1968. REEL 1 The footag
