The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Movietone newsreel item comprising combat footage shot by United States Signal Corps photographers. Shows the intense street fighting in the battle for Manila. The city in flames from fires started by the retreating Japanese. US artillery and Sherman tanks in action. The bodies of Philippino civilians who were executed by the Japanese. The liberation of Allied POWs including one hundred and thirty three Australians from a Japanese prison camp.
Fox Movietone newsreel on the breaching of Amiens prison by the RAF. In February 1944, some one hundred and eighty seven French underground members were due to be executed for their efforts in the All
Movietone newsreel item on the new speed record for crossing the United States. The P-51 Mustang aircraft left from Los Angeles and arrived in New York six hours and thirty one minutes later with one
Japanese propaganda film showing various scenes of captured US equipment and military installations on Bataan Peninsula, Philippines. Opening titles 1. ' Captured objects: airplanes four, tanks and ar
Movietone News newsreel extract covering the drive on Mandalay, Burma by the British 14th Army circa February 1945. Shows General Grant tanks. British and Indian Infantry in action. Burmese civilians
Extract from Nippon News newsreel covering the United States surrender at Corregidor, Manila Bay, Philippines. Japanese Navy and Army officers moving away from camera along mountain track. Officers st
Movietone newsreel item on a Heavy Artillery Regiment of the United States Army on manoeuvres. Shows the regiment's 240mm M1 Howitzers and M33 Prime Mover artillery tractors which are conversions of t
