UN FORCES IN KOREA Part 3

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Summary: Following are newsreel stories from, "Voice of Australia." AUSTRALIAN ARMY TRAINS IN JAPAN.: Pan from road to sign: "Australian 3rd Bn." Int. several Aussies try on steel helmets. Man tries several on and leaves with one still too small. Men load ammo into jeep-trailer. Pan, jeeps and two-wheel trailers in yard. Jeeps in convoy move on winding road past homes. Aussies assembled in yard. CUs, three Aussies in ranks. Aussies march out, over field, up hill. Aussie takes rocket out of casing, loads it into 3.5 bazooka, fires across field. Officers check hits made in armor plate. An Aussie uses a portable flamethrower in field. VS, Aussie, stripped to the waist, in bayonet drill up and down hills. ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVY.: Off Japan coast: American, British, French, New Zealand, Australian warships in harbor. Cdr Marks talking with Korean naval Lt. Aussies on deck as their ship passes a US ship. Several brief shots, activity in destroyer engine room. MS, navigator plotting course. Carrier Triumph seen from another ship underway. British tanker refuels two destroyers at once. Transfer of an officer from ship to another ship in bosun's chair. Officer on Aussie destroyer outlines mission to crew. LS, plane takes off from deck of Triumph. Seq: men rush to battle stations on destroyer. Gunnery officers below deck. Men on deck track AA gun, get ready to fire. Shot of a destroyer underway. "SHOAL HAVEN" MEN BACK FROM KOREA.: Frigate "Shoal Haven" arrives in Australian port after service in Korea. CU, little girl on shoulder of man, waving. People on pier. Sailors during reunion with wives, parents, and children. CU, sailor kissing woman. NEW ZEALAND TROOPS PARADE THROUGH BRISBANE.: VSs, troops march through crowd-lined streets before leaving for Korea. They are reviewed by the Governor, Sir John Levereck (phonetic) - no CU. FIRST WOUNDED FROM KOREA.: The first three Aussies wounded in Korea arrive in C-54. Two men are helped off ship, one man in a litter. A white Russian gives flowers to man on litter; he smiles.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities