The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Coverage of the LHQ School of Military Intelligence Southport, QLD. Scenes taken in the Photo Interpretation Wing. Shots of the students entering class room. Instructor drawing on the blackboard. Students setting up sterios. Close up of students setting up a large sterio. Laying prints on the base of the sterio, moving prints around and marking prints with ink. Scenes of students making a tracing off aerial photos, also instructor checking his work. Students using magnifying glass. Laying out mosaic, laying prints on top of each other, pinning mosaic together. Laying tracing paper over mosaic. Looking over students shoulder at mosaic. Students learning how to make an aerial mosaic. All scenes follow in sequence. Continuation of students learning how to make an aerial mosaic. Colonel Mander Jones, Chief Instructor at the school taking the parade of all students. (This sequence couldn't be finished owing to the winding handle of the camera breaking).
Produced for the Australian Army by Cinesound Studios, Melbourne and Sydney. "The art of the infantryman is less stereotyped and far harder to acquire in modern war than any other arm" - Wavell. This
The sprawling military complex at Di-An (Pron: Zee Arn) twenty miles to the west of the South Vietnamese capital, Saigon, houses the United States Army Advisers School in Vietnam. It is here that Amer
Beach landings to assault defended "enemy" villages are rarely carried out by Australian troops in Vietnam, but in Malaysia such assaults often form part of the training programme for students at the
AWM254 486 - Written records, 1939-45 War, second series:] Allied Land Forces in SW [Southwest] Pacific Area LHQ [Land Head Quarters] School of Military Intelligence Photographic Interpretation Wing.
Darwin, Northern Territory, February - March 1942. The scenes (although not in chronological sequence) were taken after the first raid on 19 February and before the second in Mitchell Street from outs
Eight Australians recently spent more than a week in the Malaysian jungle, learning to live off the land. Soldiers of the Singapore-based ANZUK Base Transport Unit made the most of the last meal befor
