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Australia Has Wings (1941)

Australia Has Wings poster
Genre
documentary film
Country
Australia

How it feels

This World War II propaganda film shows how Australia built planes for the war effort, focusing on the production of the CAC Wirraway aircraft at a factory in Fisherman's Bend.

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What happens

Australia Has Wings is a 1941 short Australian documentary film made as propaganda for World War II which shows the development of the Australian aircraft industry, particularly production of the CAC Wirraway. It was made by Commonwealth Film Laboratories for the Department of Information. Filming took place at Fisherman's Bend. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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