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1. 22ft YANKS HERE FOR CORAL SEA FETES: Commentary by Jack Davey. United States aircraft carrier USS 'Bremerton', a jet bomber and Voodoo aircraft in Brisbane and at Williamtown Air Base, New South Wales, as part of the Coral Sea Week celebrations. (04:28-05:52) At Williamtown Air Base, N.S.W., United States Voodoo fighter planes and a Douglas Reconnaissance bomber plane land as part of Coral Sea Week activities. Military personnel welcome the American servicemen. In Brisbane, the cruiser USS 'Bremerton' docks and some of the 11 000 crewmen and officers disembark; and the Commander of the United States Pacific Air Force, General Lawrence Kuter, arrives in a military plane and is shown inspecting a guard of honour.
2.153 ft Film Flashes. Arriving on MONOWAI is Captain Davy. His last crossing was 18 years ago when he commanded the famous AWATEA.
3.213 ft FASHION FADS AT FURNITURE FAIR: Sydney's 7th Annual Furniture Exhibition, the largest in Australia. Exhibition at the Sydney Showground. There are shots of the crowd looking at the displays and lamp shades and tiled tables are focused on. An elderly woman sits on an old rocking chair and a younger woman sits on a modern rocking chair. Another woman assembles an easy chair. Shots of an elephant lying down on a mattress at a Perth exhibition conclude the item.
4.296 ft YASS, N.S.W. HIGH VOLTAGE POWER FROM SNOWY SCHEME: Commentary David Low. Chairman of N.S.W. Electricity Commission Mr Dondy switches on a new 1.5 million dollar plant and 330,000 volts of power are transmitted for the first time in Australia.
5. 362 ft LEST WE FORGET IN MEMORY OF ANZAC: 45 years on, a large number of veterans take part in the Anzac Parade. showing Anzac Day marches in Sydney; Rabaul, Papua New Guinea; Orange, New South Wales; and Melbourne. (02:25) Shots of Australian soldiers fighting in the trenches in World War I open the item. Watched by a large crowd, World War I veterans march past the Cenotaph and the 'Little Digger's' chair in Martin Place, Sydney on Anzac Day. Footage of guns firing in the night during World War II precedes shots of World War II veterans marching in Sydney. In Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, sailors march past the new cenotaph. Papua New Guinean soldiers march past a dais on which military officers, the Administrator of Papua New Guinea Brigadier Cleland and other dignitaries are standing. Brigadier Cleland unveils the cenotaph and a Papua New Guinean man lays a wreath beside it. In Orange, New South Wales, school children march down Summer Street to the War Memorial. With a large crowd watching, children lay wreaths at the War Memorial. In Melbourne, men and women veterans, including a blind man and a man in a Digger's uniform, march towards the Shrine of Remembrance.