I. 'BRITISH METEORS GIVE DISPLAY.' Royal Air Force (RAF) groundcrews manhandle a Gloster Meteor Mk III fighter aircraft into an engine start position. RAF groundcrews work on a Meteor fighter of 616 Squadron prior to a display being given in honour of Queen Alexandrine of Denmark. Various views of the Gloster Meteor are shown, cockpit canopies are closed and a Meteor Mk III takes off. A Meteor Mk III performs a high speed low-level pass to camera. Aerial footage shows a pair of 616 Squadron Meteors in flight. An RAF Regiment guard of honour presents arms (Lee-Enfield No.IV .303-inch rifles). A Women's Royal Air Force (WRAF) band marches past crowds of Danish civilians at an airfield near Copenhagen. Queen Alexandrine arrives at the air show accompanied by an unidentified RAF group captain. A squadron of RAF Hawker Tempest Mk V aircraft overfly the camera position. A 616 Squadron Meteor Mk III makes high speed low-level passes near assembled crowds of Danish civilian spectators. An RAF Hawker Typhoon aircraft demonstrates its destructive capabilities by attacking captured/surrendered German Blohm und Voss Bv 138 flying boats with 60-lb rocket projectiles. A squadron of RAF Hawker Tempest Mk V fighters overfly the Danish crowds.

II. 'INDIA.' Indian farmers watch a demonstration in the use of mechanical rotary cultivators and ploughs. An Indian farmer drives a rotary cultivator, his progress being watched by his colleagues. Indian land workers use hand scythes to cut rice stalks. Rice is winnowed and threshed using traditional methods. Oxen-drawn carts carry rice sacks to a storage and auction area. Brief footage shows a mechanical rice-sifting machine at work.

III. 'AUSTRALIANS ADVANCE IN PACIFIC.' Australian (?) Matilda Mk II tanks apparently wade a watercourse on Bougainville Island (more likely to be elements of the 7th New Zealand Brigade fighting on nearby Treasury Island). Australian (?) infantry walk behind a Matilda Mk II tank. Australian infantry fire Owen 9mm sub-machine guns and Lee-Enfield Mk III .303-inch rifles from the cover of jungle foliage. Shells impact from the Allied naval bombardment of Tarakan Island as United States Navy (USN) landing craft make for the shoreline. Australian gun crews fire Ordnance 25-pounder howitzers from the cover of buildings on Tarakan Island. Bare-chested Australian infantry view the remains of Japanese pillboxes that have been knocked from their foundations by the intensity of the Allied naval fire. Brief footage shows the wreckage of a Japanese single-engined fighter (probably a Mitsubishi A6M Zero-Sen) at an airfield on Tarakan. Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) engineers use caterpillar tractors to fill in bomb craters during renovation work at a former Japanese airfield. Brief footage shows panoramic views of Tarakan Oilfields. Australian Army casualties are carried on stretchers. Australian soldiers stand silently together during a burial service for fallen comrades.

Notes

The airshow in Part I is described in 'Wing Leader', the memoirs of the Allies' highest scoring Spitfire ace J E 'Johnny' Johnson. A copy of this memoir is held by the Museum's Department of Printed Books.