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Rodeo contest in Brisbane, Australia with Australian and American competitors

A rodeo in Brisbane, Australia. Native indigenous Australians carrying spears do a dance demonstration. Spectators sit and watch the Rodeo event between the diggers and the Yanks (Australians versus Americans military personnel in Australia during World War 2). A rider climbs a horse. The horse bucks the man onto the ground. The spectators cheer while watching the rodeo featuring numerous riders on bulls and horses. A woman competes also. The Australians win the rodeo contest.

Location: Brisbane Australia
Date: 1944, March 20
Duration: 60 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067069
Newsreel "Australian girls stage mass drill at Army hospitals" shows entertainment for injured Australian troops

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.

Location: Sydney Australia
Date: 1944
Duration: 51 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675040781
Anna Roosevelt reviews troops and Jean Marie Faircloth MacArthur Christens the Australian Destroyer, Bataan the during World War II

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.

Location: Pacific Theater
Date: 1944, March 20
Duration: 1 min 7 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067066
Women Army Corps (WAC) visit a zoo in Australia.

Officials of United States Womens Army Corps on streets in Australia during World War 2. Lady Officers then go to a zoo; they play with small animals and feed them.

Location: Australia
Date: 1944
Duration: 1 min 2 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675032708
The soldiers seated on the scout car being driven over sand during a test drive in Australia.

Army jeeps being tested in Australia. The soldiers seated on the army jeep driven over sand. A jeep driven on the sea shore. The Scout car gets stuck in a sand dune. Another Scout car passes the smaller car . A car being roughly driven. (World War II period).

Location: Australia
Date: 1944
Duration: 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675067079
General MacArthur takes off from Brisbane, Australia for Milne Bay, New Guinea during World War II.

Allied Supreme Commander for South West Pacific Area, General Douglas MacArthur en route to Milne Bay, New Guinea during World War 2. U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Thomas Kinkaid and Rear Admiral Van Hook at Archerfield in Brisbane, Australia. They await the arrival of General MacArthur. A car arrives at the airfield and General MacArthur gets out of the car. The General being greeted by the Admirals. General MacArthur and the Admirals aboard MacArthur's personal B-17 Flying Fortress "Bataan" as they confer. Three officers aboard USS Phoenix underway in the Pacific Ocean. A convoy of Allied ship underway in far background with a sailor at a blinker in the foreground.

Location: Brisbane Australia
Date: 1944, February 27
Duration: 2 min 34 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675059383
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