The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Airstrip construction at Noemfoor Island showing No 62 Works Wing RAAF bulldozers and graders in operation. Local workers moving prefabricated metal airfield pieces. Airfield construction airmen throwing rocks on to the back of truck. Salvation Army tea van dispensing tea to workers. B-25 Mitchell bombers buzz the airfield. The arrival of Field Marshal Sir Thomas Blamey. Continuation of airfield construction scenes. Men lined up at RAAF post Office No. 73 to collect mail. Shot of 61 Operational Base Unit sign. Shot of sign for 11 RSU Mess. RAAF engineers looking for Japanese booby traps. They discover an improvised mine which is an upright bomb buried up to the detonator. The device is then disarmed by removal of the fuse.
Locations in this film are given when confirmed by dope sheets. Opens with shot of airfield. Religious service being conducted at the Vicarage. Noemfoor Island, No. 5 Bomb Disposal Unit conduct search
Noemfoor Island, shot of a group of Indian POWs moving stretcher cases onto a DUKW for transport to ship. Indian POWs being transfered from a beached Landing Ship Tank (LST) onto a DUKW. Sign post lis
City march by 3,500 RAAF and WAAAF personnel staged to publisize the 2nd Victory Loan. Air Vice Marshal Sir George Jones KBE CB DFC Chief of Air Staff took the salute. The march featured airfield cons
Airfield at an unidentified location SWPA P-40 Kittyhawks of No 76 Squadron RAAF land at airfield (code SV-T & SV-J). Doulgas C-47 Dakota of No 34 Squadron RAAF (code FD-E) lands. RAAF ground crew wav
Produced by RAAF War History Section. Units of 1st Tactical Air Force (TAF) RAAF in action. Units and activities featured are: Reel 1 - No 5 Bomb Disposal Unit clearing land mines and unexploded bombs
This film was taken by Commissioner Leonard John Jones during his service with the YMCA & Australian Comforts Fund in New Guinea and Bougainville. Scenes include: prevention. Lae Australian War cemete
