Australian Army At War 1939 - 1945. War Experience.

From the Film Australia Collection. Made by the Commonwealth Film Unit 1965. A record of Australian soldiers’ participation in the Second World War, drawing on actual newsreel footage depicting the hardship the men experienced and incorporating the soldiers' own observations about what it was like for them. Beginning with a brief overview of the era leading up to the war and ending with the soldiers' return to Australia, its focus is the army's campaigns from Tobruk in the Middle East to Tarakan in Borneo, including Singapore, Malaya, New Guinea and the notorious Kokoda Track.