Summary

Footage Information

Sherman Grinberg
Paramount
C2608
SR005582_07_01.mov
1/1/1942
1942 press conference with Maj. Gen. Gordon Bennett after he arrives in Australia following the fall of Singapore to the Japanese
Australian Major General Henry Gordon Bennett, in uniform, steps off airplane after escaping Singapore, men waiting in fgd / QS daughter and wife Bess walk up to Bennett / VS other officers and wife and daughter standing with Bennett next to plane / MS Bennett, family, and officers walk toward and past camera / MCU Bennett at microphone SOT says he's very, very glad to be back in Australia and it's good to be home / MCU reporter off screen says "I take it your wife feels that way about it too" and Bennett says "I don't know yet" Bennett and wife smile and laugh and walk away from microphone / Note: exact month/day not known
Gordon Bennett, Bess Bennett
Australia

Keywords

archival
newsreel
generals
escapes
uniforms
families
major generals
arrivals
airplanes
deplaning
wives
daughters
Singapore
World War II
Japan
losses
wars
British Malaya
press conferences
Australian Army
Australian military
laughter
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