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World War II, 1943 New Guinea, between Buna and Sananand. Department of Information cameramen Bill Carty and Cliff Bottomley, official photographers during the final stages of the New Guinea campaign.

World War II, 1943 Northern Australia. Department of Information cinematographer Roy Driver.

Photograph H.D. Dick, courtesy Australian War Memorial

Courtesy Australian War Memorial Alan Anderson, early 1940s World War II, c.1943 (?) Lieutenant F.S. (Syd) Wood with his 35mm Bell & Howell Eyemo, a camera widely used by combat cameramen. It was a non-reflex wind-up camera which took 100-foot daylight loads, or just over one minute of film.

Alan Anderson with a partially dismantled Debrie Parvo camera. Anderson was a member of the Department of Information Cinematographic and Photographic Unit headed by Capt. Frank Hurley, stationed in the Middle East in World War II.

North Borneo. Hugh McInnes, film and stills cameraman, Department of Information, attached to the Australian Army as an official war photographer.

Courtesy National Film & Sound Archive

Courtesy National Film & Sound Archive

Courtesy Australian War Memorial

World War II, 1945

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