A record of the Australian Army's Second World War battle honours, compiled shortly before the end of the war.

(Reel 1) Brief sequences establish the character of Australia (youth etc) and the Axis 'plan for world conquest' - Japan's war in China, outbreak of war in Europe. Australian troops train and embark to fight Hitler (in spite of Japanese threat); the home front war effort; the North African campaign - Wavell's defeat of the Italians, German counter attack, Tobruk. (Reel 2) Balkan and Crete campaign (captured film). Hitler attacks Russia; Japan attacks - Malaya falls (graphics only); New Guinea campaign in appalling conditions - battles for Port Moresby (Reel 3) the Owen Stanley range, success against odds. Victory at Alamein and advances in New Guinea (long sequences of battles for Lae and Shaggy Ridge). Closing montage of titles recording theatres of war and film of a parade of Australian troops: "the end of the story remains to be written".

Notes

Remarks: reasonably good, perhaps a little too compressed. Material from AUSTRALIA MARCHES WITH BRITAIN at beginning and JUNGLE PATROL at end.

Credits: music credit from John Huntley, 'British Film Music' (1947).