United States President Lyndon B. Johnson and wife, Lady Bird Johnson, in flight from New Zealand to Australia. Presidential plane Air Force One landing in Melbourne, Australia. President is greeted by crowd, Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt and his wife, Zara Holt. Presidential car moving on streets. Views at a wreath laying ceremony. Australian Army troops and band lined up and crowd in background. President Lyndon B Johnson lays wreath on memorial. Australian citizens crowd sidewalks with signs of protest, and some signs of support for Johnson and American policy. Key theme is anti-war demonstrators with signs like "Nappies not napalm" and "Hands off Vietnam" A woman wears a tight white shirt with message "Make love not war." Other signs include "We want independent foreign policy"; "Go home Yankee warmonger" and support signs like "Johnson Keep up good work" and "Lithuanians back Johnson." Peace demonstrations in Brisbane. Australian flags flying in background. Procession of cars and cavalrymen passing through Queen Street and crowd cheering. Cruiser in Sydney Harbor. Views of boats sailing in the Harbor, view of Sydney Opera House from the water and tugboats near harbor bridge spraying water. President and Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson on a boat. Many yachts sailing and a group of young swimmers stand atop a buoy and wave to Johnson. (Vietnam War period).
Australian girls from the Sydney Australia College of Physical Culture perform mass drills in Army Hospitals in Sydney Australia during World War 2. Crowd cheering. Patient on a wheel chair watches the mass drills. The girls perform gymnastics drills and calisthenic exercises with rhythm and precision as the crowd of injured Australian soldiers and sailors watches.
The Queen Mary troopship docks in Sydney Harbor, Australia. The ship carries the U.S. troops. A small boat floats nearby. Smoke comes out of the stack of the ship. People at the harbor wave at the ship. (World War II period)
Opening scene shows a Boeing B-24 Liberator bomber arriving at an airfield in the Caribbean during World War 2 . U.S. First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt steps from the aircraft, stopping here on one of her many trips. She strolls among U.S. servicemen and others. She is escorted by a General and reviews American Troops on parade at an army base. Scene shifts abruptly to the Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney in New South Wales Sydney Australia, where the Australian Destroyer, Bataan, is being Christened on 15 January 1944 by Jean MacArthur, the wife of General Douglas MacArthur. Dockyard workers drive wedges from beneath the destroyer's hull, to free her for launching. Mrs. MacArthur announces the name, Bataan, and swings a bottle of champaign to christen her. The ship proceeds down the ways. View from below of sailors on deck as she launches.
Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky of Vietnam visits Australia during the Vietnam War. Brisbane: Demonstration against visit of Vietnamese Prime Minister. People shout with placards in hand. Police restrain crowd and escort Prime Ministre Ky. Placard reads 'Go home murderer and take Holt with you' and 'Stop Ky'. Nguyen Cao Ky and Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt pose in Sydney, Australia. Sydney: Boat in sea. Prime Minister Holt waves. Prime Minister Nguyen Cao Ky and his wife wave from a ship.
A ticker tape parade in Sydney, Australia during World War II . People crowd on either side of streets. Australian soldiers parade on a street. Civilians cheer. Buildings on either side of the street. The troops carry guns and parade. Governor General of Australia Lord Gowrie salutes and reviews the parade. A crowd marches with the troops. The troops march and the crowd cheers.
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